Aldanellidae

Aldanellidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Stem-group Gastropoda?
Superfamily: Pelagielloidea
Family: Aldanellidae
Linsley & Kier, 1984[1]
Genera

see text.

Aldanellidae is an extinct family of paleozoic molluscs that have been assigned to the Gastropod stem group[2] but may also belong to a paraphyletic "Monoplacophora".

Contents

2005 taxonomy

The taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005[3] categorizes Aldanellidae in the superfamilia Pelagielloidea within the Paleozoic molluscs of uncertain systematic position. This family has no subfamilies.

2006–2007 taxonomy

According to the P. Yu. Parkhaev, is the Pelagiellidae the family in the order Pelagiellifomes MacKinnon, 1985 within the subclass Archaeobranchia Parkhaev, 2001 in the class Helcionelloida Peel, 1991.

Genera

Genera in the family Aldanellidae include:

References

  1. ^ Linsley & Kier. (29 March) 1984. Malacologia, 25(1): 250.
  2. ^ Budd, G. E.; Jensen, S. (2000). "A critical reappraisal of the fossil record of the bilaterian phyla". Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 75 (2): 253–95. doi:10.1017/S000632310000548X. PMID 10881389. 
  3. ^ Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (Ed.); Frýda J., Hausdorf B., Ponder W., Valdés Á. & Warén A. 2005. Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia: International Journal of Malacology, 47(1-2). ConchBooks: Hackenheim, Germany. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997. 397 pp. http://www.vliz.be/Vmdcdata/imis2/ref.php?refid=78278