Pseudomelatomidae

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Pseudomelatomidae
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Apertural view of a shell of Comitas peelae Bozzetti, 1993
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Morrison, 1966
Type genus
Pseudomelatoma
Dall, 1918
Genera

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Synonyms [1]
  • Crassispirinae McLean, 1971
  • Zonulispirinae McLean, 1971
A live individual of Pseudomelatoma torosa in situ with an attached individual of Crepidula adunca on top. Pseudomelatoma torosa 1.jpg
A live individual of Pseudomelatoma torosa in situ with an attached individual of Crepidula adunca on top.

Pseudomelatomidae is a family of predatory sea snails, marine gastropods included in the superfamily Conoidea (previously Conacea) and part of the Neogastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). [2] [1]

Contents

In 1995 Kantor elevated the subfamily Pseudomelatominae to the status of family Pseudomelatomidae. [3]

In 2011 Bouchet, Kantor et al. moved the Crassispirinae and Zonulispirinae and numerous genera of snails loosely called turrid snails (which at that point had been placed in the family Conidae) and placed them in the family Pseudomelatomidae. This was based on a cladistic analysis of shell morphology, radular characteristics, anatomical characters, and a dataset of molecular sequences of three gene fragments. [2]

Genera

Genera within the family Pseudomelatomidae include:

Genera brought into synonymy

Genera moved to another family

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References

  1. 1 2 Pseudomelatomidae Morrison, 1965 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 5 May 2011.
  2. 1 2 P. Bouchet; Yu. I. Kantor; A. Sysoev; N. Puillandre (2011). "A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda)". Journal of Molluscan Studies . 77 (3): 273–308. doi: 10.1093/mollus/eyr017 .
  3. ↑ Kantor Y., 1995, Phylogeny and relationships of Neogastropoda. Pp. 221–230, in: J. D. Taylor, ed., Origin and evolutionary radiation of the Mollusca. Oxford University Press
  4. ↑ Berry (1958). Leafl. Malac.1: 90.
  5. ↑ Dall (1918). Proc. U.S. nat. Mus.54(2238): 317.
  6. ↑ Berry (1958). Leafl. Malac.1: 87.
  7. ↑ Laseron (1954). Review of the New South Wales Turridae, Roy. Zoo. Soc. N.S.W., Sydney, 21.


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