Scissurelloidea

Scissurelloidea is a taxonomic superfamily of minute sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the subclass Vetigastropoda.^[1][2]

Scissurelloidea
Shell of Scissurella costata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Lepetellida
Superfamily:	Scissurelloidea Gray, 1847

Taxonomy

This superfamily consists of two following families (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005):

• Family Scissurellidae Gray, 1847
• Family Anatomidae McLean, 1989

Geiger (2009)^[3] updated two other subfamilies to family level:

Superfamily Scissurelloidea:

• Family Anatomidae
• Family Depressizonidae
• Family Larocheidae
• Family Scissurellidae

References

1. Scissurelloidea is a taxonomic superfamily of minute sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the clade Vetigastropoda.
2. Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2).
3. Geiger D. L.(8 May 2009) "A new species of Depressizona and the family rank of Depressizonidae". Zootaxa 2059: 57-59. abstract, full article.