Nystiellidae is a family of small
sea snail
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s,
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gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusk
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s within the
superfamily
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Epitonioidea which includes the wentletraps, the purple snails and their allies.
[Bouchet, P. (2010). Nystiellidae. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=411726 on 2011-01-23]
This family was previously considered as a subfamily of
Epitoniidae
Wentletraps are small, often white, very high-spired, predatory or ectoparasitic sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Epitoniidae.Gofas, S. (2010). Epitoniidae. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollu ...
. It was raised to family status by Nützel in 1998
[Nützel A. 1998. Ueber die Stammesgeschichte der Ptenoglossa (Gastropoda). Berliner Geowissenschaftliche Abhandlungen, ser. E (Palaeobiologie), 26: 1-229]
Genera
Genera within the family Nystiellidae include
* ''
Eccliseogyra'' Dall, 1892
* ''
Iphitus'' Jeffreys, 1883
* ''
Murdochella
''Murdochella'' is a genus of small sea snails, marine (ocean), marine gastropods in the family (biology), family Nystiellidae of the superfamily Epitonioidea, the wentletraps, the purple snails, and their allies.Bouchet, P. (2010). Murdochella ...
'' Jeffreys, 1883
* ''
Narrimania'' Taviani, 1984
* ''
Opaliopsis'' Thiele, 1928
* ''
Papuliscala'' de Boury, 1911
;Genera brought into synonymy :
* ''Abyssiscala'' de Boury, 1911: synonym of ''Eccliseogyra'' Dall, 1892
* ''Iphitella'' Thiele, 1925 : synonym of ''Iphitus'' Jeffreys, 1883
* ''Pustuliscala'' de Boury, 1921 : synonym of ''Papuliscala'' de Boury, 1911
* ''Sculptifer'' Beu & Climo, 1974 : synonym of ''Iphitus'' Jeffreys, 1883
* ''Solutiscala'' de Boury, 1909 : synonym of ''Eccliseogyra'' Dall, 1892
* ''Stylotrochus'' Seguenza, 1876: synonym of ''Iphitus'' Jeffreys, 1883
References
External links
Museum of New Zealand info S. Lima & M. Christofferson, ''Nystiellidae (Gastropoda: Epitonioidea) Collected During the REVIZEE Program/Northeast Brazil with Descriptions of New Species and a Checklist of the Family from the Atlantic Coast of South America''; American Malacological Bulletin, 31(2):289-296. 2013
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