Viviparoidea
Appearance
Viviparoidea | |
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A shell of Cipangopaludina chinensis | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Architaenioglossa |
Superfamily: | Viviparoidea Gray, 1847 |
Viviparoidea is a taxonomic superfamily of freshwater snails, aquatic gastropod mollusks within the informal group Architaenioglossa, which belongs to the clade Caenogastropoda.[1]
The following two families have been recognized in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005):
- Family Viviparidae
- † Family Pliopholygidae
References
[edit]- ^ Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2).