Ampullinidae

Ampullinidae
Shell of Ampullina sp. - Oligocene from Savona (Italy)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
Superfamily: Campaniloidea
Family: Ampullinidae
Cossman, 1918
Synonyms[1]
  • Ampullospiridae Cox, 1930
  • Gyrodinae Wenz, 1938
  • Globulariinae Wenz, 1941
  • Pseudamauridae Kowalke & Bandel, 1996

Ampullinidae are an mostly extinct taxonomic family of deep-water sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Caenogastropoda.[1]

The shells of species in this family resemble those of naticids. Sea snails of this family lived from the Triassic period to the Pliocene age of the Cenozoic.

But when the extant species Cernina fluctuata is considered as a member of this family, then Ampullinidae is extant.

Taxonomy

No subfamilies in this family are recognized in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005).

The contents and synonymy of Ampullinidae have been treated by the World Register of Marine Species after Lozouet et al. (2001), Kase & Ishikawa (2003) and Bandel (2006). The position in Campaniloidea is based on anatomical data on Globularia fluctuata (Kase, 1990; Healy, pers. comm., sperm morphology), but Ampullinoidea is treated as distinct superfamily by Lozouet et al. (2001) and Bandel (2006).[1]

Genera

Genera within the family Ampullinidae include:

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Bouchet, P. (2013). Ampullinidae. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=411664 on 2013-06-28

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