Family
Epitoniidae (Wentletrap and violet snails)
Epitonium tinctum. Photo: (c) Donna Pomeroy, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
Wentletraps are small, often white, very high-spired, predatory or ectoparasitic sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Epitoniidae.
- Humboldt Life
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
- Phylum: Mollusca (Molluscs)
- Class: Gastropoda (Gastropods)
- Subclass: Caenogastropoda (Caenogastropods)
- Superfamily: Epitonioidea
- Family: Epitoniidae (Wentletrap and violet snails)
- Genus: Epitonium (3)
- Genus: Opalia (1)
- Family: Epitoniidae (Wentletrap and violet snails)
- Superfamily: Epitonioidea
- Subclass: Caenogastropoda (Caenogastropods)
- Class: Gastropoda (Gastropods)
- Phylum: Mollusca (Molluscs)
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
