Rissoellidae are a family (biology), family of minute sea snails, marine (ocean), marine gastropod molluscs in the informal group Lower Heterobranchia. Rissoellidae is the only family within the superfamily Rissoelloidea in the Taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005), taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005.

Genera

Genera within the family Rissoellidae include: * ''Cythnia'' Carpenter, 1864Bouchet, P. (2015). ''Cythnia'' Carpenter, 1864. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=565658 on 2017-05-24 * ''Rissoella'' Gray, 1847 - synonyms: ''Heterorissoa'' Iredale, 1912; ''Jeffreysia'' Alder [in Forbes & Hanley], 1850

References

External links

* Arthur William Baden Powell, Powell A. W. B., ''New Zealand Mollusca'', HarperCollins, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979
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{{Taxonbar, from=Q7336371 Rissoellidae, Taxa named by John Edward Gray