Triphoroidea

Triphoroidea
Dorsal view of a shell of Monophorus perversus in the Triphoridae
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Clade:	Hypsogastropoda
Suborder:	Ptenoglossa
Superfamily:	Triphoroidea J.E. Gray, 1847

Triphoroidea is a superfamily of small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs within the informal group Ptenoglossa.^[1]

Taxonomy

Families and subfamilies within this superfamily are as follows:

• † Berendinellidae Guzhov, 2005
• Cerithiopsidae H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853
• Newtoniellidae Korobkov, 1955
• Triphoridae J.E. Gray, 1847

Families brought into synonymy

• Eumetulidae synonym of Newtoniellidae
• Triforidae synonym of Triphoridae

References

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

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