Ringiculidae

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Ringiculidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Opisthobranchia
Suborder: Architectibranchia
Superfamily: Ringiculoidea
Family: Ringiculidae
Philippi, 1853
Genera

See text.

Ringiculidae are a family of minute deep water sea snails or micromolluscs, marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the order Heterostropha.

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[edit] Distribution

Species in this family are found in most tropical and temperate seas.

[edit] Shell description

Ringiculid shells are small to minute, usually solid, white, ovate-globose, but with a conical spire, outer lip thickened by a varix, inner lip with two to four entering plications.

[edit] Genera in the family Ringiculidae

  • Microglyphis Dall, 1902
  • Ringicula Deshayes, 1838

[edit] References