Trochoidea (superfamily)

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Trochoidea
Temporal range: Ordovician–Recent [1]
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Rafinesque, 1815
Families

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Synonyms
  • Angarioidea Gray, 1857
  • Phasianelloidea Swainson, 1840
  • Trochacea (suffix -oidea mandatory for a superfamily name following current ICZN art. 29.2.)
  • Turbinoidea Rafinesque, 1815

Trochoidea is a superfamily of small to very large vetigastropod sea snails with gills and an operculum. [2] Species within this superfamily have nacre as the inner shell layer. The families within this superfamily include the Trochidae, the top snails. This superfamily is the largest vetigastropodan superfamily, containing more than 2,000 species. [3]

Contents

This taxon is not the same as a pulmonate land snail genus which is spelled the same way: Trochoidea (genus).

Taxonomy

2005 taxonomy

This superfamily consisted of nine following families (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005):

2017 taxonomy

Williams et al. (2008) [4] have made further refinements to the taxonomy of Trochoidea. The revised taxonomy as defined by Bouchet et al. (2017) resulted in the following families. [5] The fossil families, tentatively included in this list, are based on Tracey et al. (1993) [6]

Unassigned to a family:

Nomen dubium
Families brought into synonymy

Related Research Articles

Turbinidae

Turbinidae, the turban snails, are a family of small to large marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Trochoidea.

Trochidae Family of snails

The Trochidae, common name top-snails or top-shells, are a taxonomic family of very small to large sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Vetigastropoda.

Calliostomatidae

Calliostomatidae is a family of sea snails within the superfamily Trochoidea and the clade Vetigastropoda.

Chilodontaidae

Chilodontaidae is a taxonomic family of mostly small deepwater sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Vetigastropoda.

Stomatellinae is a subfamily of small sea snails with a brilliantly nacreous interior of the shell, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Trochidae, the top snails.

Trochaclididae, common name the false top snails, is a family of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Vetigastropoda.

Liotiidae

Liotiidae is a family of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Vetigastropoda.

Vetigastropoda Clade of sea snails

Vetigastropoda is a major taxonomic group of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks that form a very ancient lineage. Taxonomically the Vetigastropoda are sometimes treated as an order, although they are treated as an unranked clade in Bouchet and Rocroi, 2005.

Turbinoidea

Turbinoidea was a superfamily of small to large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Vetigastropoda. But it has become an available name, because it is no longer used in the current taxonomy of gastropods sensu Williams et al. (2008).

Seguenzioidea

Seguenzioidea is a superfamily of minute to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Vetigastropoda.

<i>Angaria</i> (gastropod)

Angaria is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Angariidae. Angaria is the only genus in the family Angariidae.

Colloniidae

Colloniidae is a family of small sea snails with calcareous opercula, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Vetigastropoda.

Angarioidea

Angarioidea is a superfamily of small to medium sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Vetigastropoda.

<i>Lischkeia</i>

Lischkeia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Eucyclidae.

<i>Microgaza</i>

Microgaza is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Solariellidae.

Skeneidae

The Skeneidae are a speciose family of minute to small marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Trochoidea.

Cantharidinae

The Cantharidinae are a taxonomic subfamily of very small to large sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Trochidae, common name top snails.

The Fossarininae are a taxonomic subfamily of very small to large sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Trochidae, common name top snails.

Margaritidae

Margaritidae is a family of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Trochoidea.

Trochida is an order of small to very large vetigastropod, Recent and extinct sea snails with gills and an operculum.

References

  1. ↑ Lindberg, edited by Winston F. Ponder, David R. (2008). Phylogeny and evolution of the Mollusca. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN   978-0-520-25092-5.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
  2. ↑ Gofas, S. (2013). Trochoidea. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=156489 on 2013-06-29
  3. ↑ Williams, S.T. (2012). Advances in molecular systematics of the vetigastropod superfamily Trochoidea. —Zoologica Scripta, 41, 571–595
  4. ↑ Williams S. T., Karube S. & Ozawa T. (September 2008) "Molecular systematics of Vetigastropoda: Trochidae, Turbinidae and Trochoidea redefined". Zoologica Scripta 37(5): 483-506. doi : 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2008.00341.x
  5. ↑ "Revised Classification, Nomenclator and Typification of Gastropod and Monoplacophoran Families" by Philippe Bouchet & Jean-Pierre Rocroi, Bernhard Hausdorf, Andrzej Kaim, Yasunori Kano, Alexander Nützel, Pavel Parkhaev, Michael Schrödl and Ellen E. Strong in Malacologia, 2017, 61(1–2): 1–526
  6. ↑ Tracey S., J.A. Todd & D.H. Erwin, 1993, Mollusca: Gastropoda. Pp. 131–167, in: M. J. Benton, ed., The Fossil Record, volume 2. chapman & hall, london. 845 pp.
  7. 1 2 Williams S.T., Donald K.M., Spencer H.G. & Nakano T. (2010) Molecular systematics of the marine gastropod families Trochidae and Calliostomatidae (Mollusca: Superfamily Trochoidea). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 54:783-809.
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