Janthinidae

Janthinidae

Taxobox
name = Janthinidae


image_caption =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo = Caenogastropoda
ordo = Sorbeoconcha
subordo = Hypsogastropoda
infraordo = Ptenoglossa
superfamilia = Epitonioidea
familia = Janthinidae
familia_authority = Lamarck, 1822
subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision = See text.
synonyms =

Janthinidae, or the purple snails or violet snails, are a family of pelagic sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the informal group Ptenoglossa of the clade Hypsogastropoda.

Distribution

Species in this pelagic family are found drifting world-wide in warm seas.

Description

The purple snails are pelagic, drifting on the oceans' surface, where they feed upon jellyfishes, especially the by-the-wind sailor "Velella". Purple snails consruct a raft of clear chitin, imprisoning air bubbles, and this provides the buoyancy to keep the animal at the surface.

Genera in the family Janthinidae

* "Janthina" Röding, 1798
* "Recluzia" Petit de la Saussaye, 1853

References

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* Powell A. W. B., "New Zealand Mollusca", William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1


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