{{Automatic taxobox
| image = LimacinaHelicinaNOAA.jpg
| image_caption = 在阿拉斯加的海裡拍攝到的一隻螔螺（Limacina helicina）
| taxon = Limacina
| authority = Bosc, 1817
| subdivision_ranks = 種
| subdivision = 見內文
| synonyms_ref= 。
本屬的學名「Limacina」本身的意思其實就是「像蝸牛」
作為一種在海洋的浮游生物界生活的腹足綱物種，螔螺屬透過拍動牠們的一雙擬足（亦作疣足，parapoida）來在水中暢泳，所以得來「海蝴蝶」的美名。
海蝴蝶是有殼翼足類支序（Thecosomata）的成員，與之相對的是屬於裸殼翼足類支序（Gymnosomata）的海天使。這兩個支序的成員合組成為翼足類。兩者的分別在於有殼翼足類的成員的背上還留有一個或大或小的殼，但裸殼翼足類的殼已完全褪化。
物種
本屬物種同時有化石種及生存種，分別如下：
- † Limacina atypica (Laws, 1944)
- (recent) Limacina bulimoides (d'Orbigny, 1836)
- † Limacina dilatata (Koenen, 1892)
- † Limacina ferax (Laws, 1944)
- † Limacina gormani (Curry, 1982)。
- (recent) Limacina lesueurii (d'Orbigny, 1836) - Distribution: North America, Western Atlantic.
- † Limacina limata (Marwick, 1926)
- † Limacina pygmaea (Lamarck, 1805)
下列物種皆為同種異名：
- (recent) Limacina antarctica Woodward, 1854::synonym of Limacina rangii f. antarctica Woodward, 1854: synonym of Limacina rangii (d'Orbigny, 1834)
- Limacina balea Møller, 1841: synonym of Limacina retroversa (Fleming, 1823)
- Limacina contorta Sykes, 1905: synonym of Limacina trochiformis (d'Orbigny, 1834)
- Limacina crossei Pelseneer, 1888: synonym of Limacina lesueurii (d'Orbigny, 1835)
- Limacina cucullata Gould, 1852: synonym of Limacina rangii f. antarctica Woodward, 1854: synonym of Limacina rangii (d'Orbigny, 1834)
- Limacina helicialis Lamarck, 1819: synonym of Limacina helicina (Phipps, 1774)
- (recent) Limacina helicoides Jeffreys, 1877 - synonym of Thielea helicoides (Jeffreys, 1877)
- (recent) Limacina inflata (d'Orbigny, 1836) - Planorbid pteropod. Distribution: circumglobal, Red Sea, Pacific. Length: 1 mm. Description: the shell is flatly twisted, resembling the shell of the cephalopod Nautilus. - synonym: Heliconoides inflata (d’Orbigny, 1836)
- Limacina naticoides Souleyet, 1852: synonym of Limacina trochiformis (d'Orbigny, 1834)
- Limacina pacifica Dall, 1871: synonym of Limacina helicina pacifica Dall, 1871
- Limacina scaphoidea Gould, 1852: synonym of Heliconoides inflatus (d'Orbigny, 1834)
參考文獻
- Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp.
- Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213
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