Neritoidea

Neritoidea
Two different views of shells of the freshwater nerite Theodoxus danubialis
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Neritimorpha
Order: Cycloneritida
Superfamily: Neritoidea
Rafinesque, 1815
Families

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Neritoidea is a taxonomic superfamily of mostly sea snails, nerites and their allies, marine gastropod mollusks in the order Cycloneritida (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

Previously this superfamily was in the order Neritoida in the superorder Neritopsina.

Families

Families within the superfamily Neritoidea are as follows (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005):

  • Cortinellidae Bandel, 2000
  • † Neridomidae Bandel, 2008
  • † Neritariidae Wenz, 1938
  • Neritidae, the nerites, freshwater and marine species
  • † Otostomidae Bandel, 2008
  • † Parvulatopsidae Gründel, Keupp & Lang, 2015
  • Phenacolepadidae Pilsbry, 1895, false limpets
  • Pileolidae Bandel, Gründel & P. A. Maxwell, 2000
Synonyms
  • Protoneritidae Kittl, 1899 †: synonym of Neritinae Rafinesque, 1815
  • Scutellidae Angas, 1871: synonym of Phenacolepadidae Pilsbry, 1895 (invalid: type genus a junior homonym)
  • Scutellinidae Dall, 1889: synonym of Phenacolepadidae Pilsbry, 1895 (invalid: type genus a junior homonym)
  • Septariidae Jousseaume, 1894: synonym of Neritidae Rafinesque, 1815 (a junior synonym)
  • Shinkailepadidae Okutani, Saito & Hashimoto, 1989: synonym of Shinkailepadinae Okutani, Saito & Hashimoto, 1989