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Extinct family of gastropods

Cassiopidae
Three shells of Cassiope luxani, the coin is nearly 20 mm in diameter
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Superorder: Cerithiimorpha
Family: Cassiopidae
Beurlen, 1967
Synonyms

Glauconiidae Pchelintsev, 1953 (inv.)

Cassiopidae is an extinct family of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the superorder Cerithiimorpha

According to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005) the family Cassiopidae has no subfamilies.

References

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

External links

Media related to Cassiopidae at Wikimedia Commons

Taxon identifiers
Cassiopidae


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