Carinariidae
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Carinariidae, or the heteropods, is a taxonomic family of floating sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the order Sorbeoconcha.
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[edit] Description
The shells of the gastropods in this family are small in relation to the size of the elongate animal, and the shell serves only as a protection to the viscera. The shell is a thin transparent cap, somewhat resembling the shell of a miniature argonauta, or paper nautilus.
[edit] Genera
- Cardiapoda D'Orbigny, 1835
- Carinaria Lamarck, 1801
[edit] References
- Carinariidae (TSN 72856). Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
