Diastomatidae

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Diastomatidae
Diastoma costellatum 01.JPG
Diastoma costellatum(Lamarck, 1804), the type species from the Eocene of France
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Diastomatidae
A. E. M. Cossmann, 1894 [1]
Diversity [2]
1 extant species
Synonyms [3]
  • Diastomidae Cossmann, 1893
  • Ewekoroiidae Adegoke, 1977 [4]

Diastomatidae is a family of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Cerithioidea. [3]

According to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005) the family Diastomatidae has no subfamilies.

Genera

Genera in the family Diastomatidae include:

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References

  1. Cossmann A. E. M. (1894). Journal de Conchyliologie 41(4): 322.
  2. Strong E. E., Colgan D. J., Healy J. M., Lydeard C., Ponder W. F. & Glaubrecht M. (2011). "Phylogeny of the gastropod superfamily Cerithioidea using morphology and molecules". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 162(1): 43-89. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00670.x.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia . 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN   3-925919-72-4. ISSN   0076-2997.
  4. Adegoke (1977). Bulletins of American Paleontology 71(295): 100.
  5. 1 2 3 4 Bandel K. (2006). "Families of the Cerithioidea and related superfamilies (Palaeo-Caenogastropoda; Mollusca) from the Triassic to the Recent characterized by protoconch morphology - including the description of new taxa". Freiberger Forschungshefte C 511: 59-138. PDF [ permanent dead link ].
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