Cavolinioidea

Cavolinioidea
An unidentified sea butterfly
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Euopisthobranchia
Order: Pteropoda
Suborder: Euthecosomata
Superfamily: Cavolinioidea
(Gray, 1850)
Families

The superfamily Cavolinioidea is the most speciose group of sea butterflies. They belong to the suborder Euthecosomata.

Sea butterflies (thecosomata) are pelagic marine gastropods, so called because they swim by flapping their wing-like parapodia.