Rissoellidae
| Rissoellidae | |
|---|---|
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| Live Rissoella opalina | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Infraclass: | Euthyneura |
| Subterclass: | Acteonimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Rissoelloidea Gray, 1850 |
| Family: | Rissoellidae Gray, 1850 |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Rissoellidae are a family of small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the subclass Heterobranchia.
Rissoellidae is the only family within the superfamily Rissoelloidea in the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005.[1]
Genera
[edit]Genera within the family Rissoellidae include:
- Cythnia Carpenter, 1864[2]
- Rissoella Gray, 1847 - synonyms: Heterorissoa Iredale, 1912; Jeffreysia Alder [in Forbes & Hanley], 1850
References
[edit]- 1 2 Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: periodical has ISBN (link) - ↑ Bouchet, P. (2015). Cythnia Carpenter, 1864. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=565658 on 2017-05-24
External links
[edit]- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
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