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

Limacinidae Gray, 1840

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Limacina Bosc, 1817

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: contravleugelslakken sources: de Bruyne, R.H.; Bank, R.A.; Adema, J.P.H.M.; Perk, F.A. (1994). Nederlandse naamlijst van de weekdieren (Mollusca) van Nederland en Belgie: feestuitgave ter gelegenheid van het zestig-jarig jubileum van de Nederlandse Malacologische Vereniging [Dutch namelist of the Mollusca from the Netherlands and Belgium: festive edition at the occasion of the 60-year jubilee of the Dutch Malacological Society]. Backhuys Publishers: Leiden, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-73348-33-1. 149 pp.

Japanese: ミジンウキマイマイ科

Literature

original description	Gray, J. E. (1840). Shells of molluscous animals, pp. 105-152. in: Synopsis of the contents of the British Museum. ed. 42. G. Woodfall. London. 370 pp.
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	Corse E., Rampal J., Cuoc C., Pech N., Perez Y. & Gilles A. (2013) Phylogenetic analysis of Thecosomata Blainville, 1824 (holoplanktonic Opisthobranchia) using morphological and molecular data. PLoS ONE 8(4): e59439.
additional source	van der Spoel, S. (1967). Euthecosomata, a group with remarkable developmental stages (Gastropoda, Pteropoda). Gorinchem: Noorduijn en Zoon. 378 pp. [20 November 1967].

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Limacinidae Gray, 1840. 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:13704