Neritopsidae

Neritopsidae
Neritopsis radula shells
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Neritimorpha
Superfamily: Neritopsoidea
Family: Neritopsidae
Gray, 1847
Subfamilies

See text.

Neritopsidae is a family of small sea snails and freshwater snails in the clade Cycloneritimorpha (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

The great majority of species within this family are only known as fossils. The few species which are extant are sometimes termed "living fossils".

Taxonomy

2005 taxonomy

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

2007 taxonomy

Bandel (2007)[1] have established two new subfamilies. But he recognizes Naticopsinae at family level as Naticopsidae with newly created subfamilies in it.[1]

Genera

Genera within the family Neritopsidae include:

The only extant genera are Neritopsis and Pluviostilla from subfamily Neritopsinae.

Subfamily Neritopsinae

Subfamily † Naticopsinae

subfamily † Cassianopsinae - from Late Triassic[1]

subfamily † Colubrellopsinae

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Bandel K. (2007). "Description and classification of Late Triassic Neritimorpha (Gastropoda, Mollusca) from the St Cassian Formation, Italian Alps". Bulletin of Geosciences 82(3): 215-274. doi:10.3140/bull.geosci.2007.03.215.
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