Hipponicoidea

Hipponicoidea, common name hoof shells or hoof snails, is a superfamily of small sea snails, limpet-like marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Hipponicoidea.^[1]

Hipponicoidea
A shell of Malluvium otohimae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Hipponicoidea Troschel, 1861
Families
See text

Families

• Hipponicidae Troschel, 1861

Synonyms

• Amaltheidae Dall, 1889: synonym of Hipponicidae Troschel, 1861 (Invalid: type genus a junior homonym of Amalthea Rafinesque, 1815 [Hymenoptera])
• Cheileidae Macpherson & Chapple, 1951: synonym of Hipponicidae Troschel, 1861