Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Monoplacophora > Order Neopilinida > Superfamily Neopilinoidea

Neopilinidae Knight & Yochelson, 1958

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Family group names

*Laevipilinidae*	Moskalev, Starobogatov & Filatova, 1983	synonym

Children

Neopilininae Knight & Yochelson, 1958
Veleropilininae Starobogatov & Moskalev, 1987

Literature

original description	Knight J. B. & Yochelson E. L. (1958). A reconsideration of the Monoplacophora and the primitive Gastropoda. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 33 (1): 37-48 pl. 5
basis of record	Kano, Y.; Kimura, S.; Kimura, T.; Warén, A. (2012). Living Monoplacophora: morphological conservatism or recent diversification?. Zoologica Scripta. 41(5): 471-488.
taxonomy source	Bouchet P., Rocroi J.P., Hausdorf B., Kaim A., Kano Y., Nützel A., Parkhaev P., Schrödl M. & Strong E.E. (2017). Revised classification, nomenclator and typification of gastropod and monoplacophoran families. Malacologia. 61(1-2): 1-526.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Neopilinidae Knight & Yochelson, 1958. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:23078