Pseudolividae

Pseudolividae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Pseudolivoidea
Family:	Pseudolividae de Gregorio, 1880
Genera
See text
Synonyms
Zemiridae Iredale, 1924

Pseudolividae is a taxonomic family of medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Pseudolivoidea.^[1]

The family name Pseudolividae is composed of the prefix "pseudo" and the word "Olividae" and thus means false olives. This refers to the fact that some of the species in this group, in particular a few of the Pseudoliva species, have shells that rather closely resemble those of the Olividae, the olives.

Taxonomy

According to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005) the family Pseudolividae has no subfamilies.

Genera

According to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), the family Pseudolividae contains the following genera : ^[2]

• Benthobia Dall, 1889
• Fulmentum P. Fischer, 1884
• Fusulculus Bouchet & Vermeij, 1998
• Luizia Douvillé, 1933
• Macron H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853
• Naudoliva Kilburn, 1989
• Pseudoliva Swainson, 1840
• Triumphis Gray, 1857
• Zemira H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853

Genera brought into synonymy

• † Eburnopsis Tate, 1889 : synonym of Zemira H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853
• Macroniscus Thiele, 1929: synonym of Macron H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853
• Nux Barnard, 1960: synonym of Benthobia Dall, 1889
• Sylvanocochlis Melvill, 1903: synonym of Fulmentum P. Fischer, 1884

References

1. Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia 47 (1-2).
2. WoRMS : Pseudolividae; accessed : 11 September 2010

• Vermeij G. (1998). Generic revision of the neogastropod family Pseudolividae. The Nautilus 111(2): 53-84
• Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (2005) Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia 47(1-2): 1-397.