Volutoidea
Sign in to saveVolutoidea is a taxonomic superfamily of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Neogastropoda.
Species
Superfamily
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderNeogastropoda
Habitatmarine
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Neogastropoda
- Image
- Volutidae - Voluta musica.JPG
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- taxon name
- Volutoidea
- taxon rank
- superfamily
- Commons category
- Volutoidea
- taxon author citation
- Rafinesque, 1815
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Shell description
- Families
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Volutoidea is a taxonomic superfamily of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Neogastropoda.
This superfamily includes the chank snails, the dove snails, the volutes, the margin snails and others.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Volutoidea” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.