Cocculinida is an order of deepwater
limpet
Limpets are a group of aquatic snails that exhibit a conical shell shape (patelliform) and a strong, muscular foot. Limpets are members of the class Gastropoda, but are polyphyletic, meaning the various groups called "limpets" descended indep ...
s (marine
gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
s), in the subclass
Neomphaliones.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Cocculinida. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=156482 on 2020-08-25]
Taxonomy
According to revised taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi et al. 2017, this order consists only of the superfamily
Cocculinoidea
The Cocculinoidea is a superfamily of deepwater limpets (marine gastropods), the only superfamily in the order Cocculinida , one of the main orders of gastropods according to the taxonomy as set up by ( Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). The clade Coccil ...
Dall, 1882 [Bouchet P., Rocroi J.P., Hausdorf B., Kaim A., Kano Y., Nützel A., Parkhaev P., Schrödl M. & Strong E.E. (2017). Revised classification, nomenclator and typification of gastropod and monoplacophoran families. Malacologia. 61(1-2): 1-526.]
References
* Haszprunar, G. (1987). Anatomy and affinities of Cocculinid limpets. Mollusca, Archeogastropoda). Zoologica Scripta 16: 305-324
* Haszprunar G. (1988). Anatomy and affinities of Pseudococculinid limpets (Mollusca, Archeogastropoda). Zoologica Scripta, 17(2): 161-179
* Marshall B. A. (1986). Recent and Tertiary Cocculinidae and Pseudococculinidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from New Zealand and New South Wales. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 12: 505-546
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Neomphaliones