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Family of gastropods From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Siliquariidae is a family of sea snails with unusual, very loosely coiled shells. These are marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Cerithioidea.
| Siliquariidae | |
|---|---|
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| Five view of a shell of Tenagodus anguinus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Cerithioidea |
| Family: | Siliquariidae Anton, 1838 |
| Diversity[1] | |
| About 40 extant species | |
The following two subfamilies have been recognized in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005):
Genera within the family Siliquariidae include:[2][3]
Siliquariinae
Stephopomatinae
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