Cocculinoidea
The Cocculinoidea is a superfamily of deepwater limpets, the only superfamily in the order Cocculinida, one of the main orders of gastropods according to the taxonomy as set up by. The clade Cocculiniformia used to be designated as a superorder.
Taxonomy
The Cocculinoidea are combined with the Lepetelliodea 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 leave the Cocculiniformia to consist only of the Cocculinoidea, having moved the Lepetelloidea to the Vetigastropoda.The superfamily Cocculinoidea contains the families:
- Bathysciadiidae Dautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1900
- Cocculinidae Dall, 1882
- Teuthirostriidae Haszprunar, Wendler, Jöst, Ruthensteiner & Heß, 2022
- Bathypeltidae Moskalev, 1971: synonym of Bathysciadiidae Dautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1900