Rissoellidae

Rissoellidae
	live Rissoella opalina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia; informal group Lower Heterobranchia
Superfamily:	Rissoelloidea; Gray, 1850
Family:	Rissoellidae; Gray, 1850
Synonyms[1]
	Heterophrosynidae W. Clark, 1855 (n.a.); Jeffreysiidae H. Adams & A. Adams, 1852;

Rissoellidae are a family of minute sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the informal group Lower Heterobranchia.

Rissoellidae is the only family within the superfamily Rissoelloidea in the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005.[1]

Genera

Genera within the family Rissoellidae include:

Cythnia Carpenter, 1864[2]
Rissoella Gray, 1847 - synonyms: Heterorissoa Iredale, 1912; Jeffreysia Alder [in Forbes & Hanley], 1850

Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks. 47 (1–2): 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
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

Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
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