Cavolinioidea
Superfamily of gastropods / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The superfamily Cavolinioidea is the most speciose group of sea butterflies. They belong to the suborder Euthecosomata. [1]
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Clade: | Euopisthobranchia |
Order: | Pteropoda |
Suborder: | Euthecosomata |
Superfamily: | Cavolinioidea (Gray, 1850) |
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Sea butterflies (thecosomata) are pelagic marine gastropods, so called because they swim by flapping their wing-like parapodia.