Raphitomidae

Raphitomidae
Microdaphne trichodes shell
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Raphitomidae
A. Bellardi, 1875
Type genus
Raphitoma
Bellardi, 1847
Synonyms
  • Andoniinae Vera Peláez, 2002
  • Daphnellinae T. L. Casey, 1904
  • Pleurotomellinae F. Nordsieck, 1968
  • Taraninae T. L. Casey, 1904
  • Thatcheriidae Powell, 1942
  • Raphitominae A. Bellardi, 1875 (new rank)

Raphitomidae is a family of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.[1][2]

Bouchet, Kantor et al. elevated in 2011 the subfamily Raphitominae (which at that point had been placed in the family Conidae) to the rank of family. This was based on a cladistic analysis of shell morphology, radular characteristics, anatomical characters, and a dataset of molecular sequences of three gene fragments. The family was found to be monophyletic.[1]

  1. ^ a b Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. (2011) A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 273-308.
  2. ^ Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (Ed.) (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia 47(1-2). ISBN 3-925919-72-4. 397 pp.