Cymbulioidea
Sign in to saveCymbulioidea is a taxonomic superfamily of pelagic "sea butterflies", one group of swimming sea snails. They are holoplanktonic opisthobranch gastropod molluscs in the clade Thecosomata.
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Superfamily
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderPteropoda
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Cymbulioidea is a taxonomic superfamily of pelagic "sea butterflies", one group of swimming sea snails. They are holoplanktonic opisthobranch gastropod molluscs in the clade Thecosomata.
==Anatomy== Some groups within this superfamily possess a shell in the adult stage, some are without a shell in the adult stage, and others have developed a relatively tough gelatinous, cartilaginous internal structure, a sort of fake shell called the pseudoconch.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cymbulioidea” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.