Vermetoidea: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Class
- Gastropoda
- Order
- Littorinimorpha
- Family
- Genus
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Vermetoidea
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Vermetoidea
The Vermetoidea, the worm snails or worm shells, are a taxonomic superfamily of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the order Littorinimorpha.
The shells of species in the family Vermetidae are extremely irregular, and do not resemble the average snail shell, hence the common name "worm shells" or "worm snails".
...Vermetoidea in languages:
- Chinese
- 蛇螺總科
- Japanese
- ムカデガイ上科
- Korean
- 뱀고둥상과
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