Sorbeoconcha
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Sorbeoconcha is a very large taxonomic order of snails, (mostly sea snails with gills and often with an operculum). These are primarily marine and a few freshwater gastropod mollusks within the superorder Caenogastropoda.
[edit] Suborders within the order Sorbeoconcha
- Discopoda P. Fischer, 1884
- Murchisoniina Cox & Knight, 1960
- Hypsogastropoda Ponder & Lindberg, 1997
- Cerithiimorpha Golikov & Starobogatov, 1975
According to the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005), the clade Sorbeoconcha contains the following superfamilies :
- Cerothoidea Fleming, 1822
- Campiniloidea Douvlillé, 1904
The following extinct families were not allocated to a superfamily :
- † Acanthonematidae Webz., 1938
- † Canterburyellidae Bandel, Gründel & Maxwell, 2000
- † Prisciphoridae Bandel, Gründel & Maxwell, 2000
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