Cavolinioidea: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Class
- Gastropoda
- Order
- Pteropoda
- Family
- Genus
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Cavolinioidea
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Cavolinioidea
The superfamily Cavolinioidea is the most speciose group of sea butterflies. They belong to the suborder Euthecosomata.
Sea butterflies (thecosomata) are pelagic marine gastropods, so called because they swim by flapping their wing-like parapodia.
...Cavolinioidea in languages:
- Chinese
- 駝蝶螺總科
- Japanese
- カメガイ上科
- Korean
- 거북고둥상과
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