Chilodontidae (gastropods)

This article is about sea snails. For the family of fishes, see Chilodontidae (fishes).
Chilodontidae
Apertural view of a shell of Perrinia concinna
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Superorder: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Seguenzioidea
Family: Chilodontidae
Wenz, 1938

Chilodontidae is a taxonomic family of mostly small deepwater sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Vetigastropoda (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

Taxonomy

The family was previously in the superfamily Neritoidea in the order Neritopsina and the superorder Neritaemorphi.

2005 taxonomy

This family consists of three following subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005):

2007 taxonomy

A molecular phylogeny-based taxonomy of the Seguenzioidea was published by Kano (2007).[1]

The subfamilies Calliotropinae Hickman & McLean, 1990 and Cataeginae McLean & Quinn, 1987 were raised to family levels as the Calliotropidae and the Cataegidae.

Genera

Genera within the family Chilodontidae include (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005)[2] and Herbert (2012):[3]

Genera brought into synonymy

References

  1. Kano Y. (2007). "Vetigastropod phylogeny and a new concept of Seguenzioidea: independent evolution of copulatory organs in the deep-sea habitats". Zoologica Scripta 37(1): 1-21. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2007.00316.x
  2. WoRMS : Chilodontidae; accessed : 1 October 2010
  3. Herbert, D.G. 2012. A revision of the Chilodontidae (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda: Seguenzioidea) of southern Africa and the south-western Indian Ocean. African Invertebrates 53 (2): 381-502.

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