Ataphridae

Ataphridae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Vetigastropoda
Family: Ataphridae
Cossmann, 1915
Synonyms
  • Trochaclididae Thiele, 1928
  • Acremodontidae Marshall, 1983
  • Acremodontinae B.A. Marshall, 1983
  • Parataphrinae Calzada, 1989

Ataphridae, common name the false top snails,[1] is a family of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Vetigastropoda (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).[2]

This family is unassigned to superfamily. This family has no subfamilies. The subfamily Acremodontinae is a synonym of Ataphridae.

Genera

References

  1. ↑ A Guide to the Marine Molluscs of Tasmania accessed 25 October 2009
  2. ↑ Gofas, S. (2012). Ataphridae. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=382163 on 2012-06-21
  • Marshall, B.A. 1983: Acremodontinae: a new subfamily of the Trochidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). National Museum of New Zealand Records 2: 127-130 (p. 127)
  • Williams S.T., Karube S. & Ozawa T. (2008) Molecular systematics of Vetigastropoda: Trochidae, Turbinidae and Trochoidea redefined. Zoologica Scripta 37: 483–506

Further reading

  • Gründel J. (November 2008) "Remarks to the classification and phylogeny of the Ataphridae Cossmann, 1915 (Gastropoda, Archaeogastropoda) in the Jurassic". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen, 250(2): 177-197. doi:10.1127/0077-7749/2008/0250-0177


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