Eulimellinae

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Eulimellinae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Orthogastropoda
Superorder: Heterobranchia
Order: Heterostropha
Superfamily: Pyramidelloidea
Family: Pyramidellidae
Subfamily: Eulimellinae
E. Saurin, 1958
Genera

See text.

Synonyms

Eulimellinae F. Nordsiek, 1958

Eulimellinae is a subfamily of minute sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.

This is one of eleven recognised subfamilies of the Pyramidellidae (according to the taxonomy of Ponder & Lindberg, 1997). In the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005), this subfamily Cingulininae has been downgraded to the rank of tribe Eulimellini Saurin, 1958 and belonging to the subfamily Turbonillinae.

According to Schander, Van Aartsen & Corgan (1999) there are 17 genera in the Eulimellinae.

[edit] Genera in the subfamily Eulimellinae

  • Eulimella Forbes & MacAndrew, 1846 (Type genus)
  • Bacteridella Saurin, 1959
  • Bacteridium Thiele, 1929
  • Belonidium Cossmann, 1893
  • Careliopsis Mörch, 1875
  • Discobasis Cossmann, 1888
  • Instarella Laseron, 1959
  • Kejdonia Mifsud, 1999
  • Koloonella Laseron, 1959
  • Latavia Laseron, 1951
  • Loxoptyxis Cossmann, 1888
  • Paradoxella Laseron, 1951
  • Raulostraca Oliver, 1915
  • Saccoina Dall & Bartsch, 1904
  • Tathrella Laseron, 1959
  • Terelimella Laws, 1938
  • Visma Dall & Bartsch, 1904

[edit] Problematic genera within the family Turbonillidae

The following genera are currently difficult to place within the family Turbonillidae (= Cingulininae + Eulimellinae + Turbonillinae)

  • Atomiscala DeBoury, 1909
  • Hamarilla Eames & Wilkins, 1957
  • Pseudographis Mifsud, 1998
  • Rissopsetia Dell, 1956

The genus Ebala was previously placed in the Eulimellinae but is now placed in the family Ebalidae Warén, 1994 =Anisocyclidae van Aartsen, 1995

[edit] References

  • Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia 47 (1-2): 1–397. 
  • Ponder, W.F. & Lindberg, D. R. (1997). "Towards a phylogeny of gastropod molluscs: an analysis using morphological characters". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 119: 88–265. 
  • Saurin, E (1958). "Pyramidellidae de Pho-Hai (Sud Viet-Nam)". Annales de la Faculté des Sciences de Saigon 35: 63–86. 
  • Schander, C., van Aartsen, J. J., Corgan, J. C. (1999). "Families and genera of the Pyramidelloidea (Mollusca: Gastropoda)". Bollettino Malacologico 34 (9-12): 145–166. 


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