Epitonioidea
Superfamily of gastropods
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Epitonioidea is a superfamily of planktonic and ectoparasitic sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs within the informal group Ptenoglossa.[1] This superfamily includes the wentletraps and the purple snails.
| Epitonioidea | |
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| Janthina janthina | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | incertae sedis |
| Superfamily: | Epitonioidea Berry, S.S., 1910 |
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Taxonomy
Families and subfamilies within this superfamily are as follows:
- Family Epitoniidae S.S. Berry, 1910, the wentletraps and purple snails
- Family Nystiellidae Clench & Turner, 1952
