Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Heterobranchia > Infraclass Euthyneura > Subterclass Tectipleura

Cephalaspidea P. Fischer, 1883

Rank: Order
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Bulloidea Gray, 1827
Cephalaspidea incertae sedis
Cylichnoidea H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854
Haminoeoidea Pilsbry, 1895
Philinoidea J. E. Gray, 1850 (1815)

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: bubble snails sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

French: céphalaspides sources: Bousfield, E. L. (1964). Coquillages des cotes canadiennes de l'Atlantique. Musée national du Canada. Ottawa. 89 p.

German: Kopfschildschnecken; Kopfschildträger sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

Japanese: 頭楯亜目

Literature

basis of record	Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia. 47 (1-2): 1-397. [20 July].
additional source	Moles J., Wägele H., Schrödl M. & Avila C. (2017). A new Antarctic heterobranch clade is sister to all other Cephalaspidea (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zoologica Scripta. 46(2): 127–137.
additional source	Malaquias M.A.E., Dodds J.M., Bouchet P. & Reid D.G. 2009. A molecular phylogeny of the Cephalaspidea sensu lato (Gastropoda: Euthyneura): Architectibranchia redefined and Runcinacea reinstated. Zoologica Scripta 38(1): 23-41.
taxonomy source	Oskars T.R., Bouchet P. & Malaquias M.A. (2015). A new phylogeny of the Cephalaspidea (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) based on expanded taxon sampling and gene markers. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 89: 130-150.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Cephalaspidea. 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:154