† Prisciphoridae is an extinct
family
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of
sea snails,
marine gastropod mollusk
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s in the clade
Sorbeoconcha
Sorbeoconcha is a taxonomic clade of snails, i.e. gastropods, mainly marine species with gills and opercula, within the clade Caenogastropoda.
The taxon Sorbeoconcha was named by Winston Ponder and David R. Lindberg in 1997.
Taxonomy
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.
The original spelling was Prisciophoridae,
but it was changed Prisciphoridae.
According to the
taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005) the family Prisciphoridae has no subfamilies. It is unassigned to superfamily.
Genera
* † ''
Prisciphora'' Schröder, 1992 - type genus, synonym: ''Prisciophora''
** † ''
Prisciophora schroederi'' Bandel, Gründel, Maxwell, 2000
References
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