Melanopsidae

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Melanopsidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Orthogastropoda
Order: Sorbeoconcha
Suborder: Cerithiimorpha
Family: Melanopsidae
H.Adams & A. Adams, 1854
Genera

See text.
Synonyms

Stomatopsinae Stache, 1889
Amphimelaniinae P.Fischer & Crosse, 1891
Fagotiinae Starobogatov, 1992

Melanopsidae is a family of gastropod molluscs of the Sorbeoconcha (formerly Mesogastropoda) order.

They first appeared in the Late Cretaceous, and are closely related to Potamididae. Alongside unidirectional evolutionary change from one to the next species through time the process of hybridization plays a major role in the appearance of new species. [1]

[edit] Genera in the family Melanopsidae

[edit] References

  1. ^ Bandel , K. (2000): Speciation among the Melanopsidae (Caenogastropoda). Special emphasis to the Melanopsidae of the Pannonian Lake at Pontian time (Late Miocene) and the Pleistocene and Recent of Jordan. Mitt. Geol.-Paläont. Inst. Univ. Hamburg, Heft 84