See text Velutinoidea Cypraeoidea, the cowries and cowry allies, is a superfamily of sea snails, marine gastropods included in the clade Littorinimorpha.

The largest known fossil cowry was Gisortia gigantiea Munster, 1828 which reached a length of 350mm.

In much of the older literature including Keen 1958, gastropod superfamilies are written with the suffix -acea.

[3][4][5] The following two subfamilies were recognized in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005): Fehse (2007)[6] elevated the subfamily Pediculariinae to the family Pediculariidae, and the tribe Eocypraeini to the family Eocypraeidae.

Both of these groups were removed from the Ovulidae and raised to family level, based on research on their morphological and molecular phylogenic qualities.