Isospiridae

Isospiridae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Family:	Isospiridae Wangberg-Eriksson, 1964 [1]

Isospiridae is an extinct family of fossil sea snails, Paleozoic gastropod mollusks. ^[2]

This family is unassigned to superfamily. This family has no subfamilies according to the taxonomy by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005). It is classified as "Basal taxa that are certainly Gastropoda" by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005). ^[2]

Genera

• Isospira Koken, 1897 - type genus of the family Isospiridae. Species include: ^[3]
  • Isospira bucanioides Koken, 1897
  • Isospira huttoni Cowper Reed, 1921
  • Isospira lepida Perner, 1903
  • Isospira nautilina Koken & Perner, 1925
  • Isospira reinwaldti Öpik, 1930
  • Isospira reticulatus Wängberg-Eriksson, 1964 - synonym: Isospira reticulata

Taxonomy

Peter J. Wagner consider Isospiridae as synonym of Cyrtonellidae within Tergomya, ^{[4] [5]} The Paleobiology Database has become adatapted to ^[5] this unpublished opinion by Wagner. This alternate taxonomy is as: Tergomya, Cyrtonellida, Cyrtonellidae. ^[5]

References

1. Wangberg-Eriksson K. (1964). "Isospira reticulata n. sp. from the Upper Ordovician Boda Limestone, Sweden". Geologiska Föreningen i Stockholm Förhandlingar86(3): 229-237.
2. Bouchet, P.; Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2).
3. "Isospira". The Paleobiology Database, accessed 26 February 2010.
4. Wagner P. J. (2008). "Paleozoic Gastropod, Monoplacophoran and Rostroconch Database". ^[ permanent dead link ]
5. "Cyrtonellidae" The Paleobiology Database. Accessed 26 February 2010.