Volutoidea

Volutoidea is a taxonomic superfamily of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Neogastropoda.^[1]

Volutoidea Temporal range: Cretaceous to Recent
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Volutoidea Rafinesque, 1815
Families
See text
Synonyms
Cancellarioidea Forbes & Hanley, 1851

This superfamily includes the chank snails, the dove snails, the volutes, the margin snails and others.

Shell description

The shell of the snails in this superfamily vary greatly in shape and degree of ornamentation. The shells have an oval aperture, and a noticeable siphonal canal.

Families

Families within the superfamily Volutoidea are as follows:

• family Cancellariidae Forbes & Hanley, 1851
• family Cystiscidae Stimpson, 1865 -- 15 genera
• family Granulinidae G. A. Coovert & H. K. Coovert, 1995
• family Marginellidae Fleming, 1828 -- 30 genera
• family Marginellonidae Coan, 1965
• family Volutidae Rafinesque, 1815 -- 49 genera

Synonyms

• Paladmetidae Stephenson, 1941 † synonym of Admetinae Troschel, 1865
• Plesiocystiscidae G. A. Coovert & H. K. Coovert, 1995: synonym of Plesiocystiscinae G. A. Coovert & H. K. Coovert, 1995

• 
  Persicula cingulata, Cystiscidae
• 
  Marginella glabella, Marginellidae
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  Cymbiola nobilis, Volutidae