Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Littorinimorpha

Capuloidea J. Fleming, 1822

Rank: Superfamily
Taxon Status: accepted

note: Segregation of Capulidae in its own superfamily follows Ponder (in Beesley et al. 1998). The echinospira larva of the Capulidae suggests they may form a monophyletic group with the Velutinoidea.

Children

Capulidae J. Fleming, 1822
Haloceratidae Warén & Bouchet, 1991

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: カツラガイ上科

Literature

original description	Fleming, J. (1822). The philosophy of zoology: or a general view of the structure, functions and classification of animals. Edinburgh Vol. 2: 1-618.
basis of record	Takano, T., Warén, A. & Kano, Y. (2022). Phylogenetic position of the deep-sea snail family Haloceratidae and new insights into caenogastropod relationships. Journal of Molluscan Studies. 88: eyac012.
additional source	Cossmann, M. (1921). Essais de paléoconchologie comparée. Douzième livraison. Paris: [the author]. 349 pp., plates A-D, 1-6.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Capuloidea J. Fleming, 1822. 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:387335