Rostellariidae is a

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sea snail Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the ...

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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 ...

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s in the

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Littorinimorpha Littorinimorpha is a large order of snails, gastropods, consisting primarily of sea snails ( marine species), but also including some freshwater snails ( aquatic species) and land snails (terrestrial species).Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (Ed.); Fr� ...

.Bouchet, P. (2010). Rostellariidae. 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=387400 on 2011-05-01

Taxonomy

Higher classification

;Bouchet & Rocroi (2005) This taxon is ranked at subfamily level Rostellariinae within the family

Strombidae Strombidae, commonly known as the true conchs, is a taxonomic family of medium-sized to very large sea snails in the superfamily Stromboidea, and the Epifamily Neostromboidae. The term true conchs, being a common name, does not have an exact mea ...

in the

taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005) The taxonomy of the Gastropoda as it was revised in 2005 by Philippe Bouchet and Jean-Pierre Rocroi is a system for the scientific classification of gastropod mollusks. (Gastropods are a taxonomic class of animals which consists of snails and ...

. Above this rank the superfamily

Caenogastropoda Caenogastropoda is a taxonomic clade, a large diverse group which are mostly sea snails and other marine gastropod mollusks, but also includes some freshwater snails and some land snails. The clade is the most diverse and ecologically successfu ...

contains the unranked clades

Hypsogastropoda Hypsogastropoda is a clade containing marine gastropods within the clade Caenogastropoda. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Hypsogastropoda. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=t ...

and

respectively. ;Morrison (2008) Rostellariidae is ranked at family level for example by Morrison (2008).Morrison H. M. (2008). "Descriptionon of '' Rostellariella barbieri'' n. sp. from the southern Cebu area of the central Philippines (Gastropoda: Stromboidea: Rostellariidae)". ''Club Conchylia Informationen'' 39(3-4): 26-31.

Genera

The family consists of the following genera: * † '' Africoterebellum'' Eames, 1957 * † '' Amekichilus'' Eames, 1957 * † '' Amplogladius'' Cossmann, 1889 * † '' Calyptraphorus'' Conrad, 1857 * † '' Cyclomolops'' Gabb, 1868 * † '' Cyrtulotibia'' Eames, 1957 * † '' Dientomochilus'' Cossmann, 1904 * † '' Digitolabrum'' Cossmann, 1904 * † '' Ectinochilus'' Cossmann, 1889 * † '' Eotibia'' B. L. Clark, 1942 * † '' Mauryna'' de Gregorio, 1880 * † ''

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'' Agassiz, 1841 * '' Rimellopsis'' Lambiotte, 1979 * '' Rostellariella'' Thiele, 1929 * '' Strombolaria'' de Gregorio, 1880 * † '' Sulcogladius'' Sacco, 1893 * † '' Terebellomimus'' Pacaud, 2008 * † '' Terebellopsis'' Leymerie, 1846 * ''

Tibia The tibia (; ), also known as the shinbone or shankbone, is the larger, stronger, and anterior (frontal) of the two bones in the leg below the knee in vertebrates (the other being the fibula, behind and to the outside of the tibia); it connects ...

'' Röding, 1798 (synonyms: ''Gladius'' Mörch, 1852; ''Rostellaria'' Lamarck, 1799; ''Rostellum'' Montfort, 1810) * '' Varicospira'' Eames, 1952

References

* Stewart, R. B. (1927). Gabb's California fossil type gastropods. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 78: 287–447, pls. 20–32. * Bandel K. (2007) About the larval shell of some Stromboidea, connected to a review of the classification and phylogeny of the Strombimorpha (Caenogastropoda). Freiberger Forschungshefte, ser. C 524: 97-206. * Kronenberg G.C. & Burger A.W. (2002) On the subdivision of Recent Tibia-like gastropods (Gastropoda, Stromboidea), with the recognition of the family Rostellariidae Gabb, 1868, and a note on the type species of Tibia Röding, 1798. Vita Malacologica 1: 39-48

External links

Bouchet, P., Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families
Malacologia. 47(1-2): 1–397. . {{Wikispecies Stromboidea