Campaniloidea
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The Campaniloidea is a superfamily
Taxonomic rank
In biological classification, rank is the level in a taxonomic hierarchy. Examples of taxonomic ranks are species, genus, family, and class. Each rank subsumes under it a number of less general categories...

 of sea snail
Sea snail
Sea snail is a common name for those snails that normally live in saltwater, marine gastropod molluscs....

s, marine gastropod
Gastropoda
The Gastropoda or gastropods, more commonly known as snails and slugs, are a large taxonomic class within the phylum Mollusca. The class Gastropoda includes snails and slugs of all kinds and all sizes from microscopic to quite large...

 mollusks. The Campaniloidea are included in the clade Sorbeoconcha
Sorbeoconcha
Sorbeoconcha is a taxonomic clade of snails, i.e. gastropods, mainly marine species with gills and opercula, within the clade Caenogastropoda.The taxon Sorbeoconcha was named by Winston Ponder and David R. Lindberg in 1997.-1997 taxonomy:...

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Taxonomy

The following four families have been recognized in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005)
Taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005)
The taxonomy of the Gastropoda as it was revised by Philippe Bouchet and Jean-Pierre Rocroi is currently the most up-to-date overall system for classifying gastropod mollusks...

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  • Family Campanilidae
    Campanilidae
    Campanilidae are a taxonomic family of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Sorbeoconcha.-Taxonomy:There are no subfamilies in Campanilidae recognized in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi .-Genera:...

     Douvillé, H., 1904
  • Family Ampullinidae
    Ampullinidae
    Ampullinidae are a taxonomic family of deep-water sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Sorbeoconcha.The shells of species in this family resemble those of naticids.-Taxonomy:...

     A. E. M. Cossmann, 1919
  • Family Plesiotrochidae
    Plesiotrochidae
    Plesiotrochidae is a family of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Sorbeoconcha.According to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi the family Plesiotrochidae has no subfamilies....

     Houbrick, 1990
  • † Family Trypanaxidae
    Trypanaxidae
    Trypanaxidae is an extinct family of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Sorbeoconcha.According to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi the family Trypanaxidae has no subfamilies....

    Gougerot & Le Renard, 1987


(Families that are exclusively fossil are indicated with a dagger †)
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