Clavatulidae

Clavatulidae
Five views of a shell of † Tomellana semimarginata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Clavatulidae
Gray, 1853[1]
Genera

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Synonyms[2]
  • Pusionellinae Gray, 1853
  • Clionellidae Stimpson, 1865
  • Melatomidae Gill, 1871
  • Turriculinae Powell, 1942 (inv.)

Clavatulidae is a taxonomic family of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.[3] The family is not well differentiated morphologically.

Clavatulidae was raised, based on cladistic analysis, from subfamily to the family level by Rosenberg in 1998. It is no longer regarded as a subfamily of Turridae by several malacologists (Kantor, Sysoev).[2][4][5] This family has no subfamilies.

  1. ^ Gray J. E. (1853). "On the division of Ctenobranchous Gasteropodous Mollusca into larger groups and families". Annals and Magazine of Natural History (2)11: 124-133. Clavatulidae (spelled as Clavatulina) is on the page 128.
  2. ^ a b World Register of Marine Species: Clavatulidae. Retrieved 1 April 2010.
  3. ^ Bouchet, P.; Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2).
  4. ^ P. Bouchet; Yu. I. Kantor; A. Sysoev; N. Puillandre (2011). "A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda)". Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77 (3): 273–308. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyr017.
  5. ^ Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp.