Cypraeoidea
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Cypraeoidea, the cowries and cowry allies, is a superfamily of sea snails, marine gastropods included in the clade Littorinimorpha. This superfamily had been called Cypraeacea and was named by Rafinesque in 1815.[1]
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Cypraeoidea | |
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A live cowry Cypraea chinensis, with its mantle fully extended, head end to the left | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Littorinimorpha |
Superfamily: | Cypraeoidea Rafinesque, 1815 |
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Synonyms[1] | |
Velutinoidea |
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