Thalassocyonidae is a
family
Family (from la, familia) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other relationship). The purpose of the family is to maintain the well-being of its ...
of
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 ...
s in the superfamily
Tonnoidea
The Tonnoidea are a superfamily of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the order Littorinimorpha. This superfamily includes many very large species.
Nomenclature
Beu (1998, 2008) favours usage of Tonnoidea and Tonnidae rather than Cas ...
and the order
Littorinimorpha.
Genera
The only two genera within the family Thalassocyonidae are:
* ''
Distorsionella''
Beu, 1978
* ''
Thalassocyon
''Thalassocyon'' is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Thalassocyonidae.
Taxonomy
Riedel (1995) elevated this genus to a family level (Thalassocyonidae), a vision not supported in Verhaeghe & Poppe (2000), nor in Bou ...
''
Barnard, 1960
References
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