Volutoidea

Short description: Superfamily of sea snails

Volutoidea

Temporal range: Cretaceous to Recent

Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Mollusca
Class:  | Gastropoda
Subclass:  | Caenogastropoda
Order:  | Neogastropoda
Superfamily:  | Volutoidea
Rafinesque, 1815
Families

See text

Synonyms

Cancellarioidea Forbes & Hanley, 1851

Volutoidea is a taxonomic superfamily of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Neogastropoda.[1]

This superfamily includes the chank snails, the dove snails, the volutes, the margin snails and others.

## Shell description

The shell of the snails in this superfamily vary greatly in shape and degree of ornamentation. The shells have an oval aperture, and a noticeable siphonal canal.

## Families

Families within the superfamily Volutoidea are as follows:

* family Cancellariidae Forbes & Hanley, 1851
* family Cystiscidae Stimpson, 1865 \-- 15 genera
* family Granulinidae G. A. Coovert & H. K. Coovert, 1995
* family Marginellidae Fleming, 1828 \-- 30 genera
* family Marginellonidae Coan, 1965
* family Volutidae Rafinesque, 1815 \-- 49 genera

Synonyms

* Paladmetidae Stephenson, 1941 † synonym of Admetinae Troschel, 1865
* Plesiocystiscidae G. A. Coovert & H. K. Coovert, 1995: synonym of Plesiocystiscinae G. A. Coovert & H. K. Coovert, 1995

* Persicula cingulata, Cystiscidae

* Marginella glabella, Marginellidae

* Cymbiola nobilis, Volutidae

## References

1. ↑ MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Volutoidea Rafinesque, 1815. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1055738 on 2020-06-05

* Ponder, WF & DR Lindberg 1997\. Towards a phylogeny of gastropod molluscs: an analysis using morphological characters. Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 119(2): 83-265.
* Bouchet P., Rocroi J.P., Hausdorf B., Kaim A., Kano Y., Nützel A., Parkhaev P., Schrödl M. & Strong E.E. (2017). Revised classification, nomenclator and typification of gastropod and monoplacophoran families. Malacologia. 61(1-2): 1–526.

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