Peraclidae
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| Peraclidae | |
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| Peracle reticulata, from the Catalan coast | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Clade: | Euopisthobranchia |
| Order: | Pteropoda |
| Superfamily: | Cymbulioidea |
| Family: | Peraclidae Tesch, 1913[1] |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Procymbuliidae, 1913 | |
Peraclidae is a family of pelagic sea snails or "sea butterflies", marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Cymbulioidea.[2]
This family has no subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
This family was originally called Procymbuliidae Tesch, 1913 and then called Peraclididae by Wenz in 1938.[2] The name Peraclidae takes precedence.
Peracle is the type genus of the family Peraclidae.
"Peraclis" Pelseener, 1888 is a unjustied modification (Giovine, F. 1988)