Olivoidea

Olivoidea
Olivoidea
A growth series of three shells of the lettered olive, in the family Olividae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Olivoidea
Latreille, 1825
Families

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Olivoidea is a taxonomic superfamily of minute to medium-large predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Neogastropoda.[1]

Taxonomy

According to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005) the superfamily Olivoidea has two families:

References

  1. ^ Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia 47 (1-2). 

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