Kingdom Animalia Rank Superfamily | Phylum Mollusca | |
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Similar Pleurobranchidae, Amphiboloidea, Glacidorbidae, Acteonoidea, Elasmognatha | ||
Umbraculoidea is a superfamily of unusual false limpets with a thin soft patelliform shell, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Umbraculida, within the clade Euopisthobranchia.
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There are two families in this superfamily, which is listed as the only superfamily in the clade Umbraculida within the informal group Opisthobranchia in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005).
Taxonomy
A study by Grande et al., published in 2004, concluded that Umbraculoidea was a sister clade to the Cephalaspidea (Acteonoidea excluded).
2005 taxonomy
Umbraculoidea contains two families:
2010 taxonomy
Jörger et al. (2010) moved Umbraculoidea to the Euopisthobranchia.
References
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