Isospiridae

Isospiridae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Family: Isospiridae
Wangberg-Eriksson, 1964[1]

Isospiridae is an extinct family of fossil sea snails, Paleozoic gastropod mollusks.[2]

This family is unassigned to superfamily. This family has no subfamilies according to the taxonomy by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005). It is classified as "Basal taxa that are certainly Gastropoda" by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005).[2]

Genera

  • Isospira Koken, 1897 - type genus of the family Isospiridae. Species include:[3]
    • Isospira bucanioides Koken, 1897
    • Isospira huttoni Cowper Reed, 1921
    • Isospira lepida Perner, 1903
    • Isospira nautilina Koken & Perner, 1925
    • Isospira reinwaldti Öpik, 1930
    • Isospira reticulatus Wängberg-Eriksson, 1964 - synonym: Isospira reticulata

Taxonomy

Peter J. Wagner consider Isospiridae as synonym of Cyrtonellidae within Tergomya,[4][5] The Paleobiology Database has become adatapted to[5] this unpublished opinion by Wagner. This alternate taxonomy is as: Tergomya, Cyrtonellida, Cyrtonellidae.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Wangberg-Eriksson K. (1964). "Isospira reticulata n. sp. from the Upper Ordovician Boda Limestone, Sweden". Geologiska Föreningens i Stockholm Förhandlingar 86(3): 229-237.
  2. 1 2 Bouchet, P.; Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2).
  3. ↑ "Isospira". The Paleobiology Database, accessed 26 February 2010.
  4. ↑ Wagner P. J. (2008). "Paleozoic Gastropod, Monoplacophoran and Rostroconch Database".
  5. 1 2 3 "Cyrtonellidae" The Paleobiology Database. Accessed 26 February 2010.
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