Rissooidea

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Rissooidea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Orthogastropoda
Superorder: Caenogastropoda
Order: Sorbeoconcha
Suborder: Hypsogastropoda
Infraorder: Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Rissooidea
Families

See text.

Rissooidea is a superfamily of small and minute saltwater and freshwater snails with an operculum. These gastropod mollusks are mostly marine, but the superfamily also includes some freshwater and brackish water species.

[edit] Families

  • Adeorbidae (synonym of Tornidae)
  • Amnicolidae Tryon, 1863
  • Anabathridae Keen, 1971
  • Assimineidae H.Adams & A.Adams, 1856
  • Barleeidae Gray, 1857
  • Bithyniidae Gray, 1857
  • Caecidae Gray, 1850
  • Calopiidae Ponder, 1999
  • Cochliopidae Tryon, 1866
  • Elachisinidae Ponder, 1985
  • Emblandidae Ponder, 1985
  • Epigridae Ponder, 1985
  • Falsicingulidae Slavoshevskaya, 1975
  • Helicostoidae Pruvot-Fol, 1937
  • Hydrobiidae Stimpson, 1865
  • Hydrococcidae Thiele, 1928
  • Iravadiidae Thiele, 1928
  • Istrianidae Starobogatov, 1983 (now synonym of Belgrandiinae de Stefani, 1877 , subfamily of Hydrobiidae)
  • Lithoglyphidae Tryon, 1866
  • † Mesocochliopidae Yu, 1987
  • Moitessieriidae Bourguignat, 1863
  • † Palaeorissoinidae Gründel & Kowalke, 2002
  • Pomatiopsidae Stimpson, 1865
  • Rissoidae Gray, 1847
  • Sadlerianidae Starobogatov & Sitnikova, 1983 (now synonym of Belgrandiinae de Stefani, 1877 , subfamily of Hydrobiidae)
  • Stenothyridae Tryon, 1866
  • Tornidae Sacco, 1896 (1884)
  • Truncatellidae Gray, 1840


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