Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Heterobranchia > Infraclass Euthyneura > Subterclass Tectipleura > Order Pteropoda > Suborder Euthecosomata > Superfamily Cavolinioidea

Cavoliniidae J. E. Gray, 1850 (1815)

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Cavoliniinae J. E. Gray, 1850 (1815)
Diacriinae Rampal, 2019

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: カメガイ科

Literature

original description	Gray, J. E. (1850). Catalogue of the Mollusca in the collection of the British Museum. Part II. Pteropoda. Edward Newman, London, iv + 45 pp. [9 February; Preface 11 January 1850].
basis of record	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.
additional source	Janssen, A. W. (2020). Notes on the systematics, morphology and biostratigraphy of holoplanktic Mollusca, 27. Comments on a paper discussing Pteropoda (Gastropoda, Heterobranchia) systematics, recently (2019) published in Bollettino Malacologico. Basteria. 84 (1-3): 65-75.
additional source	Janssen, A. W.; Bush, S. L. & Bednaršek, N. (2019). The shelled pteropods of the northeast Pacific Ocean (Mollusca: Heterobranchia, Pteropoda). Zoosymposia. 13: 305-346.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Cavoliniidae J. E. Gray, 1850 (1815). 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:23000