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

Philinoidea J. E. Gray, 1850 (1815)

Rank: Superfamily
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Aglajidae Pilsbry, 1895 (1847)
Alacuppidae Oskars, Bouchet & Malaquias, 2015
Colpodaspididae Oskars, Bouchet & Malaquias, 2015
Gastropteridae Swainson, 1840
Laonidae Pruvot-Fol, 1954
Philinidae J. E. Gray, 1850 (1815)
Philinoglossidae Hertling, 1932
Scaphandridae G. O. Sars, 1878

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: キセワタガイ上科

Literature

original description	Gray, J. E. (1850). [text]. In: Gray, M. E., Figures of molluscous animals, selected from various authors. Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, London. Vol. 4, iv + 219 pp. (August) [Frontispiece (portrait of Mrs. Gray); pp. ii–iv (preface); 1–62 (explanation of plates 1–312 in Volumes 1–3); pp. 63–124 (systematic arrangement of figures); 127–219 (reprint of Gray 1847).
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	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. Philinoidea 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:196322