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Taxonomy
The Order Vetigastropoda is further organized into finer groupings including:
- Family (13): Cyclostrematidae · Fissurellidae · Haliotidae · Lepetodrilidae · Peltospiridae · Phasianellidae · Pleurotomariidae · Scissurellidae · Seguenziidae · Skeneidae · Stomatellidae · Trochidae · Turbinidae
- Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 1,876 species and subspecies in the Order Vetigastropoda.
Families
Cyclostrematidae
Cyclostrematidae is a family of small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the superorder Vetigastropoda. [more]
Fissurellidae
Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets and slit limpets is a taxonomic family of limpet-like sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Vetigastropoda. [more]
Haliotidae
Abalone (from Abulón) are medium to very large-sized edible sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Haliotidae and the genus Haliotis. Common names for abalones also include ear-shells, sea-ears and Venus's-ears, as well as muttonfish or muttonshells in Australia, ormer in Jersey and Guernsey, perlemoen in South Africa and paua in New Zealand. [more]
Lepetodrilidae
Peltospiridae
Phasianellidae
Pleurotomariidae
Scissurellidae
Scissurellidae, sometimes known by the little slit snails, are a taxonomic family of small to minute sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs in the clade Vetigastropoda (according taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). [more]
Seguenziidae
Skeneidae
Stomatellidae
Stomatellidae is a family of small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the suborder Vetigastropoda. [more]
Trochidae
The Trochidae, top snails, are a taxonomic family of very small to large sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Vetigastropoda (according taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). [more]
Turbinidae
Turbinidae, the turban snails, are a of small to large marine gastropods. Turbinidae have a strong, thick calcareous operculum readily distinguishing them from the somewhat similar Trochidae or top snails, which have a corneous operculum. [more]
At least 561 species and subspecies belong to the Family Turbinidae.
More info about the Family Turbinidae may be found here.
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