Exilioidea is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Ptychatractidae.[1]

Exilioidea
Shell of Exilioidea atlantica (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Turbinelloidea
Family: Ptychatractidae
Genus: Exilioidea
Grant & Gale, 1931
Type species
Chrysodomus rectirostris Carpenter, 1864

Species

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Species within the genus Exilioidea include:

References

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  • Bouchet P. & Warén A. (1988). Transfer of Exilioidea Grant & Gale, 1931 to Turbinellidae, with descriptions of three new species (Neogastropoda). Venus. 47(3): 172-184
  • McLean J.H. (1996). The Prosobranchia. In: Taxonomic Atlas of the Benthic Fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and Western Santa Barbara Channel. The Mollusca Part 2 – The Gastropoda. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. volume 9: 1-160
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