Viviparoidea
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| Viviparoidea | |
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| A shell of Cipangopaludina chinensis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Architaenioglossa |
| Superfamily: | Viviparoidea Gray, 1847 |
Viviparoidea is a taxonomic superfamily of freshwater snails, aquatic gastropod mollusks within the informal group Architaenioglossa, which belongs to the clade Caenogastropoda.[1]
The following two families have been recognized in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005):
- Family Viviparidae
- † Family Pliopholygidae
