Biology:Viviparoidea

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Short description: Superfamily of gastropods

Viviparoidea
Cipangopaludina chinensis shell.jpg
A shell of Cipangopaludina chinensis
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Architaenioglossa
Superfamily: Viviparoidea
Gray, 1847

Viviparoidea is a taxonomic superfamily of freshwater snails, aquatic gastropod mollusks within the informal group Architaenioglossa, which belongs to the clade Caenogastropoda.[1]

The following two families have been recognized in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005):

References

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

Wikidata ☰ Q7937916 entry