Carinariidae

Carinariidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Orthogastropoda
Superorder:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Sorbeoconcha
Suborder:	Hypsogastropoda
Infraorder:	Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Carinarioidea
Family:	Carinariidae Blainville, 1818
Genera
See text.

Carinariidae is a family of gastropod molluscs in the order Sorbeoconcha.

The shells are small in relationto the size of the large elongated animal, and serving only as a protection to the viscera. The shell is a thin transparent cap, somewhat resembling the shell of a miniature argonauta, or paper natilus.

Genera

• Cardiapoda D'Orbigny, 1835
• Carinaria Lamarck, 1801

References

• "Carinariidae". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Powell A W B, New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1