The Cocculinoidea is a superfamily of deepwater
limpets (marine
gastropods), the only superfamily in the order Cocculinida, one of the main orders of gastropods according to the taxonomy as set up by (
Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). The clade Cocciliniformia used to be designated as a superorder.
The Cocculinoidea (Cocculinacea Dall, 1882) are combined with the Lepetelliodea (Lepetellacea Dall, 1882) in Cocculinoformia Haszprunar, 1987, referred to as a clade in
Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005 although it used to be designated a superorder by
Ponder & Lindberg, 1997. Bouchet & Rocroi (2005) leave the Cocculiniformia to consist only of the Cocculinoidea, having moved the Lepetelloidea to the
Vetigastropoda.
(Note that before the stipulation by the
ICZN, the majority of
invertebrate superfamilies ended in -acea, or -aceae, not -oidea.)
Keen, A.Myra 1958; Sea Shells of Tropical West America, Stanford University Press.
Moore, R.C. 1952, Gastropods, in Moore, Lalicker, and Fischer; Invertebrate Fossils, McGraw-Hill Book.
Further reading
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Strong E. E., Harasewych M. G. & Haszprunar G. (2005) "Phylogeny of the Cocculinoidea (Mollusca, Gastropoda)." Invertebrate Biology122(2): 114-125.
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10.1111/j.1744-7410.2003.tb00077.x