Pyramidelloidea

{{Short description|Superfamily of gastropods}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| name =Pyramidelloidea

| image = Turbonilla acutissima.png

| image_caption = live Turbonilla acutissima

| image2 = Pyramidella maculosa - D'Orbigny.jpg

| image2_caption = Two views of a shells of Pyramidella acus

| taxon = Pyramidelloidea

| authority = J. E. Gray, 1840{{cite book

| last = Gray

| first = J. E.

| title = Synopsis of the contents of the British Museum

| edition = 42nd

| publisher = London

| date = 1840

| pages =370 pp

| isbn =

}}

}}

Pyramidelloidea is a superfamily of mostly very small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks and micromollusks within the clade Panpulmonata.

This is a voluminous taxon: above the species level close to 400 named taxa are referred to this gastropod superfamily.

Pyramidelloidea has both fossil and recent members. They live as ectoparasites on bivalve molluscs and polychaete worms, and have a sharp, piercing stylet instead of a radula.{{cite book |author= Barnes, Robert D. |year=1982 |title= Invertebrate Zoology |publisher= Holt-Saunders International |location= Philadelphia, PA|pages= 376|isbn= 0-03-056747-5}}

Distribution

This taxon is found worldwide.

Taxonomy

= 1999 taxonomy =

Taxonomy by Schander, Van Aartsen & Corgan (1999):{{cite journal

| author = Schander, C.

| author2 = van Aartsen, J. J.

| author3 = Corgan, J. C.

| year = 1999

| title = Families and genera of the Pyramidelloidea (Mollusca: Gastropoda)

| journal = Bollettino Malacologico

| volume =34

| issue = 9–12

| pages = 145–166

| issn =

| doi =

}}

= 2005 taxonomy =

Pyramidelloidea has been classified within the informal group Lower Heterobranchia in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005).{{Bouchet 2005}}

Taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005:

= 2010 taxonomy =

Jörger et al. (2010) have redefined major groups within the Heterobranchia and they moved Pyramidelloidea to Panpulmonata.Jörger K. M., Stöger I., Kano Y., Fukuda H., Knebelsberger T. & Schrödl M. (2010). "On the origin of Acochlidia and other enigmatic euthyneuran gastropods, with implications for the systematics of Heterobranchia". BMC Evolutionary Biology 10: 323. {{doi|10.1186/1471-2148-10-323}}.

Pyramidelloidean genera of uncertain familial position

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