Caymanabyssiidae

Caymanabyssiidae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Lepetellida
Superfamily: Lepetelloidea
Family: Caymanabyssiidae
Marshall, 1986

Caymanabyssiidae is a family of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the vaude Vetigastropoda (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).[1][2]

This family has no subfamilies. This family was originally the subfamily Caymanabyssiinae Marshall 1985, in the family Pseudococculinidae, containing the genera Caymanabyssia and Colotrachelus. The three other genena were added later by Haszprunar (1988) [3]

  1. ^ "Family Caymanabyssiidae - Hierarchy - The Taxonomicon". taxonomicon.taxonomy.nl. Retrieved 2021-06-09.
  2. ^ Bouchet, P. (2012). Caymanabyssiidae. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=411607 on 2013-02-09
  3. ^ Haszprunar (1988), On the origin and evolution of major gastropod groups, with special reference to the Streptoneura. J. Moll. Stud. 54: 367-411.