Semisulcospiridae

Semisulcospiridae
A live individual of Semisulcospira kurodai crawling on the glass of an aquarium
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Semisulcospiridae
Morrison, 1952[1]
Type species
Hortia arriuensis Lozouet, 1999
Species

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Diversity[2]
about 50 extant species
Synonyms[3]

Jugidae Starobogatov, Prozorova, Bogatov & Sayenko, 2004 (n.a.)

Semisulcospiridae, common name semisulcospirids, is a family of freshwater snails, aquatic gilled gastropod mollusks with an operculum, in the superfamily Cerithioidea.[3]

Semisulcospiridae diversified from the Pleuroceridae about 90 million years ago, in the Cretaceous.[4]

  1. ^ Morrison (1952). The American Malacological Union. News Bulletin and Annual Report 1951: 8.
  2. ^ Strong E. E., Colgan D. J., Healy J. M., Lydeard C., Ponder W. F. & Glaubrecht M. (2011). "Phylogeny of the gastropod superfamily Cerithioidea using morphology and molecules". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 162(1): 43-89. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00670.x.
  3. ^ a b MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Semisulcospiridae J. P. E. Morrison, 1952. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=715954 on 2021-03-08
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference Strong 2009 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).