Porcellioidea

Porcellioidea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
(unranked): †Porcellioidea
Koken, 1895
Families

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Porcellioidea is an extinct superfamily of small to large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Vetigastropoda.[1]

This superfamily dates back to the Paleozoic. They developed sinistrally (left-handed) or planispirally coiled teleoconchs.[2]

Taxonomy

Bouchet & Rocroi based their classification on the study by Bandel, published in 1993.[3] However, the position of the Porcelliidae is unsure, as noted by Peter J. Wagner in 2002. Wagner reported that the Porcelliidae belongs to the subfamily Gosseletininae, family Gosseletinidae, in the superfamily Eotomarioidea.

This superfamily consists of the four following families (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005):

(Families that are exclusively fossil are indicated with a dagger †)

References

  1. ^ Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2).
  2. ^ Frýda J. (2004). "Two new gastropod genera (Porcellioidea, Archaeogastropoda) from the Lower Carboniferous of Belgium" (PDF). Czech Geological Society. 49 (1–2).
  3. ^ K. Bandel (1993). "Evolutionary history of sinistral archaeogastropods with and without slit (Cirroidea, Vetigastropoda)". Freiberger Forschungshefte Ser. C. 450 (1): 41–81.