# Mitroidea

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{{Short description|Superfamily of gastropods}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| name = Mitroidea
| image = Hortia paradrillia 001.jpg
| image_caption = Shell of ''Hortia paradrillia'' (holotype in the MNHN, Paris)
| taxon = Mitroidea
| authority = Swainson, 1831 
| subdivision_ranks = Families
| subdivision = ''See text''
}}

'''Mitroidea''' is a [superfamily](/source/Taxonomic_rank) of [Recent](/source/Recent) and fossil [sea snail](/source/sea_snail)s, [marine](/source/marine_(ocean)) [gastropod](/source/gastropod) [mollusk](/source/Mollusc)s within the order [Neogastropoda](/source/Neogastropoda).<ref name="WoRMS">MolluscaBase (2018). Mitroidea Swainson, 1831. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1055728 on 2018-03-04</ref>

==Families==
* [Charitodoronidae](/source/Charitodoronidae) <small>Fedosov, Herrmann, Kantor & Bouchet, 2018</small>
* [Mitridae](/source/Mitridae) <small>Swainson, 1831</small>
* [Pyramimitridae](/source/Pyramimitridae) <small>Cossmann, 1901</small>
;Family brought into synonymy:
* Pleioptygmatidae <small>Quinn, 1989</small> synonym of Pleioptygmatinae <small>Quinn, 1989</small> represented as [Mitridae](/source/Mitridae) <small>Swainson, 1831</small>

==References==
{{Reflist}}
* Kantor Y., Lozouet P., Puillandre N. & Bouchet P. , 2014. ''Lost and found: The Eocene family Pyramimitridae (Neogastropoda) discovered in the Recent fauna of the Indo-Pacific''. Zootaxa 3754(3): 239-276
* 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

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Category:Mitroidea
Category:Neogastropoda
Category:Gastropod superfamilies

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