Littorinimorpha
Littorinimorpha is a large order of snails, gastropods, consisting primarily of sea snails (marine species), but also including some freshwater snails (limnic species) and land snails (terrestrial species).
Previously, the Linnaean taxonomy used in the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Ponder & Lindberg (1997) ranked like this: subclass Orthogastropoda, superorder Caenogastropoda, order Sorbeoconcha, suborder Hypsogastropoda, infraorder Littorinimorpha.
16 branches of this order, most-observed first
Periwinkle Snails and Allies
superfamilyLittorinoidea
Cowries and Allies
superfamilyCypraeoidea
Moon Snails
superfamilyNaticoidea
Tonnoid Snails
superfamilyTonnoidea
Slippersnails and Allies
superfamilyCalyptraeoidea
Conchs and Allies
superfamilyStromboidea
Looping Snails and Allies
superfamilyTruncatelloidea
Worm Snails
superfamilyVermetoidea
Trivia, Erato and allies
superfamilyVelutinoidea
Spire Shells and Allies
superfamilyRissooidea
Hoof Snails
superfamilyHipponicoidea
Vanikoroid Snails
superfamilyVanikoroidea
Fig Shells
superfamilyFicoidea
Cap Snails and Allies
superfamilyCapuloidea
Sea Elephants
superfamilyPterotracheoidea
Cingulopsoidea
superfamilyCingulopsoidea
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 85525.