Vanikoroidea

Vanikoroidea
Apertural view of the shell of Malluvium otohimae, family Hipponicidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Vanikoroidea J. E. Gray, 1840
Families
See text

Vanikoroidea is a superfamily of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Littorinimorpha.^[1]

Families

Families within the superfamily Vanikoroidea include:

• Family Vanikoridae Gray, 1840
• Family Haloceratidae Warén & Bouchet, 1991
• Family Hipponicidae Troschel, 1861
• † Family Omalaxidae Cossmann, 1916

(Families that are exclusively fossil are indicated with a dagger †)

This classification follows the studies by Ponder & Warén, published in 1988,^[2] and Ponder, published in 1998.

References

1. Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia 47 (1–2).
2. W.F. Ponder &A. Warén (1988). "Classification of the Caenogastropoda and Heterostropha - A list of the family-group names and higher taxa". Malacological review. suppl. 4: 288–328.