Overview
Taxonomy
The Suborder Hypsogastropoda is a member of the Order Architaenioglossa. Here is the complete "parentage" of Hypsogastropoda:
- Domain: Eukaryota
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom: Animalia
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
- Subkingdom: Bilateria
(Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983 - bilaterians
- Branch: Protostomia
Grobben, 1908 - protostomes
- Infrakingdom: Lophotrochozoa
- Lophotrochozoans
- Superphylum: Eutrochozoa
- Phylum: Mollusca
(C. Linnaeus, 1758) Cuvier, 1795 - Molluscs
- Class: Gastropoda
Cuvier, 1795 - Snails and Slugs
- Subclass: Orthogastropoda
Ponder & Lindberg, 1996
- Superorder: Caenogastropoda
Cox, 1960
- Order: Architaenioglossa
Haller, 1892
- Suborder: Hypsogastropoda Ponder & Lindberg, 1997
- Order: Architaenioglossa
Haller, 1892
- Superorder: Caenogastropoda
Cox, 1960
- Subclass: Orthogastropoda
Ponder & Lindberg, 1996
- Class: Gastropoda
Cuvier, 1795 - Snails and Slugs
- Phylum: Mollusca
(C. Linnaeus, 1758) Cuvier, 1795 - Molluscs
- Superphylum: Eutrochozoa
- Infrakingdom: Lophotrochozoa
- Lophotrochozoans
- Branch: Protostomia
Grobben, 1908 - protostomes
- Subkingdom: Bilateria
(Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983 - bilaterians
- Kingdom: Animalia
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
The Suborder Hypsogastropoda is further organized into finer groupings including:
- Infraorder (3): Littorinimorpha · Neogastropoda · Ptenoglossa
- Family (118): Aclididae · Amnicolidae · Anabathridae · Aporrhaidae · Assimineidae · Atlantidae · Babyloniidae · Barleeiidae · Bellerophinidae · Bithyniidae · Bohaispiridae · Buccinidae · Bursidae · Caecidae · Calopiidae · Calyptraeidae · Cancellariidae · Capulidae · Carinariidae · Cerithiopsidae · Cing ulopsidae · Clavatulidae · Cochliopidae · Coelostylinidae · Colombellinidae · Colubrariidae · Columbellidae · Conidae · Costellariidae · Cypraeidae · Cystiscidae · Drilliidae · Eatoniellidae · Elachisinidae · Emblandidae · Epigridae · Epitoniidae · Eulimidae · Falsicingulidae · Fasciolariidae · Ficidae · Haloceratidae · Harpidae · Helicostoidae · Hipponicidae · Hydrobiidae · Hydrococcidae · Iravadiidae · Janthinidae · Johnwyattiidae · Lamelliphoridae · Laubierinidae · Lithoglyphidae · Littorinidae · Marginellidae · Maturifusidae · Melongenidae · Mesocochliopidae · Mitridae · Moitessieriidae · Muricidae · Na ssariidae · Naticidae · Newtoniellidae · Nystiellidae · Olivellidae · Olividae · Omalaxidae · Ovulidae · Palaeorissoinidae · Perissityidae · Personidae · Pholidotomidae · Pickworthiidae · Pisanianuridae · Pleioptygmatidae · Pomatiidae · Pomatiopsidae · Pommerozygiidae · Pseudolividae · Pseudomelatomidae · Pter otracheidae · Ptychatractidae · Pugnellidae · Purpurinidae · Ranellidae · Rastodentidae · Rissoidae · Sarganidae · Seraphsidae · Settsassiidae · Skeneopsidae · Speightiidae · Stenothyridae · Strepsiduridae · Strictispiridae · Strombidae · Struthiolariidae · Taiomidae · Terebridae · Thersiteidae · Tonnidae · Tornidae · Tripartellidae · Triphoridae · Triviidae · Truncatellidae · Turbinellidae · Turridae · Tylostomatidae · Vanikoridae · Velutinidae · Vermetidae · Volutidae · Volutomitridae · Weeksiidae · Xenophoridae · Zerotulidae
Families
Aclididae
Aclididae is a family of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks, in the superfamily Eulimoidea. [more]
Amnicolidae
Amnicolidae is a family of small freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks. [more]
Anabathridae
Aporrhaidae
Assimineidae
Assimineidae is a family of minute snails with an operculum that live in saltwater, freshwater or on the land; they are mostly aquatic gastropod mollusks or micromollusks, in the clade Littorinimorpha. [more]
Atlantidae
Atlantidae is a family of sea snails, holoplanktonic gastropod molluscs in the clade Littorinimorpha. [more]
Babyloniidae
Babyloniidae is a taxonomic family of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks within the superfamily Muricoidea. [more]
Barleeiidae
Barleeiidae (often also spelled as Barleeidae) is a family of minute sea snails, micromollusks in the clade Littorinimorpha. These snails are very abundant and live in sublittoral and intertidal waters on rocky substrates. [more]
Bellerophinidae
Bellerophinidae is an extinct family of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Littorinimorpha. [more]
Bithyniidae
Bithyniidae is a family of small freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs in the clade Littorinimorpha. [more]
Bohaispiridae
Bohaispiridae is an extinct family of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Littorinimorpha. [more]
Buccinidae
Buccinidae is a very large and diverse taxonomic family of large sea snails, often known as whelks or true whelks. [more]
Bursidae
Bursidae, common name "frog snails" or "frog shells" is a rather small taxonomic family of large sea snails, marine gastropod predatory snails in the clade Littorinimorpha. [more]
Caecidae
Caecidae is a taxonomic family of very small and minute sea snails or micromolluscs, marine gastropod molluscs in the order Littorinimorpha. [more]
Calopiidae
Calopiidae is a family of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Rissooidea. [more]
Calyptraeidae
Calyptraeidae, common name the slipper snails or slipper limpets, cup-and-saucer snails, and Chinese hat snails are a family of small to medium-sized marine prosobranch gastropods. This family includes the slipper snails (Crepidula species), the Chinese hat snails, (Calyptraea species), and the cup-and-saucer snails (Crucibulum species) among others. [more]
Cancellariidae
Cancellariidae, common name the nutmeg snails or nutmeg shells, are a family of small to medium-large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Neogastropoda. Their shells resemble a nutmeg seed. [more]
Capulidae
Capulidae, common name the cap snails or cap shells, are a taxonomic family of limpet-like sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Littorinimorpha. [more]
Carinariidae
Carinariidae, known by the common name "heteropods" like their relatives in the Pterotracheoidea, is a taxonomic family of swimming or floating sea snails, pelagic marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Littorinimorpha. [more]
Cerithiopsidae
Cerithiopsidae are a family of very small and minute sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs or micromollusks in the informal group Ptenoglossa. Gastropods in this family are known as cerithiopsids. [more]
Cingulopsidae
Cingulopsidae is a family of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Littorinimorpha. [more]
Clavatulidae
Clavatulidae is a taxonomic family of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea. The family is not well differentiated morphologically. [more]
Cochliopidae
Cochliopidae is a family of small freshwater snails with gills and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks. [more]
Coelostylinidae
Colombellinidae
Colombellinidae is an extinct family of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Littorinimorpha. [more]
Colubrariidae
Colubrariidae is a taxonomic family of medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Buccinoidea. This family has no subfamilies. [more]
Columbellidae
Columbellidae, common name the "dove snails" or "dove shells" are a family of minute to small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Neogastropoda. [more]
Conidae
Conidae is a taxonomic family of minute to quite large sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Conoidea. [more]
Costellariidae
Costellariidae sometimes called the "ribbed miters" is a taxonomic family of minute to medium-sized predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks. This family of snails is also sometimes referred to as Vexillum miters. The main family of miter shells however is Mitridae, a closely related group. [more]
Cypraeidae
Cystiscidae
Cystiscidae is a taxonomic family of minute sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks. [more]
Drilliidae
Drilliidae is a taxonomic family of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea. [more]
Eatoniellidae
Eatoniellidae, commonly known as eatoniellids, are a taxonomic family of minute sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Cingulopsoidea. [more]
Elachisinidae
Elachisinidae is a family of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Rissooidea and the clade Littorinimorpha. [more]
Emblandidae
Epigridae
Epitoniidae
Wentletraps are small, often white, very high-spired, predatory or ectoparasitic sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks, in the family Epitoniidae. [more]
Eulimidae
Eulimidae is a family of very small parasitic sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Eulimoidea. [more]
Falsicingulidae
Falsicingulidae is a family of very small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Littorinimorpha. [more]
Fasciolariidae
Fasciolariidae, common name the "tulip snails and spindle snails", is a family of small to large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Buccinoidea. [more]
Ficidae
Ficidae, common name the fig shells are a family of medium to large marine gastropods. It is the only family in the superfamily Ficoidea. [more]
Haloceratidae
Haloceratidae is a family of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Littorinimorpha. [more]
Harpidae
Harpidae, common name the harp snails, is a taxonomic family of large predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks. [more]
Helicostoidae
Hipponicidae
Hipponicidae, common name hoof shells or hoof snails, is a family of small sea snails, limpet-like marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Vanikoroidea. [more]
Hydrobiidae
Hydrobiidae, common name mud snails, is a large cosmopolitan taxonomic family of very small freshwater snails and brackish water snails that have an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the clade Littorinimorpha. [more]
Hydrococcidae
Iravadiidae
Iravadiidae is a family of minute sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Rissooidea and the clade Littorinimorpha. [more]
Janthinidae
Janthinidae, common name the purple snails or violet snails, are a family of pelagic sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the informal group Ptenoglossa of the clade Hypsogastropoda. [more]
Johnwyattiidae
Lamelliphoridae
Laubierinidae
Lithoglyphidae
Littorinidae
Littorinidae is a taxonomic family of over 200 species of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Littorinimorpha, commonly known as periwinkles and found world-wide. [more]
Marginellidae
Marginellidae, or the margin shells, are a taxonomic family of small, often colorful, sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Neogastropoda. [more]
Maturifusidae
Melongenidae
Melongenidae, the crown conchs, busycon whelks and their relatives, are a taxonomic family of large to very large marine gastropods in the clade Neogastropoda. [more]
Mesocochliopidae
Mitridae
Mitridae, known as mitre shells, are a taxonomic family of sea snails, widely distributed marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Neogastropoda. [more]
Moitessieriidae
Moitessieriidae is a family of small freshwater snails, aquatic gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Rissooidea. [more]
Muricidae
Muricidae, common name murex snails or rock snails, is a large and varied taxonomic family of small to large predatory sea snails. With approximately 1,600 living species the Muricidae represent almost 10% of the Neogastropoda. Additionally, 1,200 fossil species have been recognised (Merle et al. 2011). There are numerous subfamilies, although experts disagree about the subfamily divisions. Many muricids have unusual shells which are considered attractive by shell collectors and by interior designers. [more]
Nassariidae
Nassariidae, common name nassa mud snails (USA), or dog whelks (UK), are a taxonomic family of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Neogastropoda. [more]
Naticidae
Naticidae, common name the moon snails, is a family of minute to large-sized predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Littorinimorpha. [more]
Newtoniellidae
Nystiellidae
Olivellidae
Olividae
Olive snails, also known as olive shells and olives, scientific nameOlividae, are a taxonomic family of medium to large predatory sea snails with smooth, shiny, elongated oval-shaped shells. The shells often show various muted but attractive colors, and may be patterned also. They are marine gastropod molluscs in the family Olividae within the main clade Neogastropoda. [more]
Omalaxidae
Ovulidae
Ovulidae, common names the ovulids, cowry allies or false cowries, is a family of small to large predatory or parasitic sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Cypraeoidea, the cowries and the cowry allies. [more]
Palaeorissoinidae
Perissityidae
Personidae
Personidae is a family of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Littorinimorpha. [more]
Pholidotomidae
Pickworthiidae
Pickworthiidae is a family of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Littorinimorpha. [more]
Pisanianuridae
Pleioptygmatidae
Pomatiidae
Pomatiopsidae
Pomatiopsidae is a family of small mainly freshwater snails (but also in other habitats) with gills and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Rissooidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). [more]
Pommerozygiidae
Pseudolividae
Pseudolividae is a taxonomic family sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks. [more]
Pseudomelatomidae
Pseudomelatomidae is a family of predatory sea snails, marine gastropods included in the superfamily Conoidea (previously Conacea) and part of the Neogastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). [more]
Pterotracheidae
Pterotracheidae is a family of medium-sized to large floating sea snails, pelagic gastropod molluscs. They are in the superfamily Pterotracheoidea along with two other similar pelagic families, the Atlantidae and the Carinariidae. [more]
Ptychatractidae
Pugnellidae
Purpurinidae
Ranellidae
Ranellidae, common name the triton shells or tritons, is a taxonomic family of small to very large predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Littorinimorpha. [more]
Rastodentidae
Rissoidae
Rissoidae is a large family of very small and minute sea snails with an operculum, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Littorinimorpha. [more]
Sarganidae
Seraphsidae
Settsassiidae
Skeneopsidae
Skeneopsidae is a family of very small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Littorinimorpha. [more]
Speightiidae
Stenothyridae
Stenothyridae is a family of freshwater snails, snails with gills and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Rissooidea. [more]
Strepsiduridae
Strictispiridae
Strictispiridae is a taxonomic family sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks. [more]
Strombidae
Struthiolariidae
"Ostrich foot" redirects here. For the foot of an ostrich, see here. [more]
Taiomidae
Terebridae
The Terebridae, commonly referred to as auger shells or auger snails, are a group or taxonomic family of small to large predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks. [more]
Thersiteidae
Tonnidae
Tonnidae is a family of medium-sized to very large sea snails, known as the tun shells. These are marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Sorbeoconcha and the clade Littorinimorpha. [more]
Tornidae
Tornidae is a family of very small and minute sea snails with an operculum, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Littorinimorpha. This family used to be known as the Vitrinellidae. [more]
Tripartellidae
Triphoridae
Triphoridae are a family of very small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the informal group Ptenoglossa in the clade Hypsogastropoda. Almost all the species in this family are micromollusks. [more]
Triviidae
Triviidae is a taxonomic family of small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Littorinimorpha. [more]
Truncatellidae
Truncatellidae, common name the "looping snails", is a family of small amphibious snails, with gills and an operculum, semi-marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks. [more]
Turbinellidae
Turbinellidae are a family of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the order Neogastropoda. [more]
Turridae
Turridae, (common name, the turrids), is a large taxonomic family of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks, that vary in size from minute to moderately large. With more than 4,000 species, the Turridae (sensu Powell 1966) is the largest mollusk family and group of marine caenogastropods. There are about 27,000 described scientific names (accepted names and synonyms) within the family Turridae. They constitute more than half of the predatory species of gastropods in some parts of the world (Taylor et al. 1980). [more]
Tylostomatidae
Vanikoridae
Vanikoridae is a family of very small or medium sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Littorinimorpha. [more]
Velutinidae
Velutinidae is a family of small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Littorinimorpha. [more]
Vermetidae
Vermetidae, common name the worm snails or worm shells, is a taxonomic family of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Littorinimorpha. [more]
Volutidae
Volutidae, common name volutes, are a taxonomic family of predatory sea snails that range in size from 9 mm to over 500 mm, marine gastropod mollusks. Most of the species have no operculum. [more]
Volutomitridae
Volutomitridae is a family of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Muricoidea. [more]
Weeksiidae
Xenophoridae
Xenophoridae, common name carrier shells, are a taxonomic family of medium-sized to large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Littorinimorpha. [more]
Zerotulidae
At least 7 species and subspecies belong to the Family Zerotulidae.
More info about the Family Zerotulidae may be found here.
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