Pickworthiidae

Pickworthiidae
Three shells of Reynellona natalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Pickworthiidae
Iredale, 1917
Subfamilies and genera

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Pickworthiidae is a family of small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Littorinimorpha.[1]

Subfamilies

The following three subfamilies are recognized in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005):

Genera

Genera in the family Pickworthiidae include:[2]

Subfamily Pickworthiinae Iredale, 1917 (synonym: Reynellonidae)

Subfamily Sherborniinae Iredale, 1917 (synonym: Faxiidae)

Genera brought into synonymy
shell of Sansonia kirkpatricki

References

  1. Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia 47 (1–2).
  2. Pickworthiinae. WoRMS.

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