Conradiidae is a
taxonomic family (created in 1987 by Golikov & Starobogatov) of very small
sea snails,
marine gastropod molluscs or
micromollusc
A micromollusk is a shelled mollusk which is extremely small, even at full adult size. The word is usually, but not exclusively, applied to marine mollusks, although in addition, numerous species of land snails and freshwater mollusks also r ...
s. These genera were previously included in the
polyphyletic
A polyphyletic group is an assemblage of organisms or other evolving elements that is of mixed evolutionary origin. The term is often applied to groups that share similar features known as homoplasies, which are explained as a result of conver ...
family
Skeneidae. They belong within the clade
Vetigastropoda
Vetigastropoda is a major taxonomic group of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks that form a very ancient lineage. Taxonomically the Vetigastropoda are sometimes treated as an order, although they are treated as an unranked clade in Bouchet ...
, and the superfamily
Trochoidea.
Genera
* ''
Conjectura''
Finlay, 1926
* ''
Conradia''
A. Adams, 1860
* ''
Crossea''
A. Adams, 1865
* ''
Crosseola''
Iredale, 1924
* ''
Crossolida''
Rubio & Rolán, 2019
References
* Golikov, A. N.; Starobogatov, Ya. I. (1987). Sistema otriada Cerithiiformes i ego polozhenie v podklasse Pectinibranchia
ystematics of the order Cerithiiformes and its position within the subclass Pectinibranchia Vsesoiuznoe soveshchanie po izucheniiu molliuskov
eningrad 8: 23−28.
* Hickman, C. S. (2013). Crosseolidae, a new family of skeneiform microgastropods and progress toward definition of monophyletic Skeneidae. American Malacological Bulletin. 31(1): 1-16
* Bouchet P., Rocroi J.P., Hausdorf B., Kaim A., Kano Y., Nützel A., Parkhaev P., Schrödl M. & Strong E.E. (2017). Revised classification, nomenclator and typification of gastropod and monoplacophoran families. Malacologia. 61(1-2): 1-526
External links
Hickman C.S. (2013) Crosseolidae, a new family of skeneiform microgastropods and progress toward definition of monophyletic Skeneidae. American Malacological Bulletin 31(1): 1-16 (abstract)
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Trochoidea (superfamily)