Latrogastropoda

Latrogastropoda is a clade of gastropods, considered a superorder, in the subclass Caenogastropoda. It was originally proposed in 2000 by Frank Riedel to unite the predominantly predatory "higher" caenogastropod groups. Latrogastropoda includes both the order Neogastropoda and some taxa classified in the paraphyletic order Littorinimorpha. Latrogastropoda is equivalent to the "siphonate group" of caenogastropods recognized by Ponder and colleagues in 2008. The non-neogastropod latrogastropods are broadly equivalent to the Neomesogastropoda. The name Strombogastropoda was proposed by Simone in 2011 for a clade uniting stromboids with neogastropods and their close relatives, and is equivalent to Ponder and colleagues' concept of Latrogastropoda.