Colloniidae
Colloniidae is a family of small sea snails with calcareous opercula, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Vetigastropoda.
Taxonomy
2005 taxonomy
Colloniidae was listed as subfamily Colloniinae within the family Turbinidae within Turbinoidea according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
This taxon consists of four following tribes (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005):
- Colloniinae Cossmann, 1917
- tribe Colloniini Cossmann, 1917 - synonym: Bothropomatinae Thiele, 1924 (inv.); Homalopomatinae Keen, 1960; Petropomatinae Cox, 1960
- tribe † Adeorbisinini Monari, Conti & szabo, 1995
- tribe † Crossostomatini Cox, 1960
- tribe † Helicocryptini Cox, 1960
2008 taxonomy
Colloniidae was elevated to family level and (together with Phasianellidae) belongs to superfamily Phasianelloidea according to Williams et al. (2008).[1]
It contains the following subfamilies:
- Colloniinae
- Petropomatinae
Genera
Genera in the family Colloniidae include:[2]
- Subfamily Colloniinae
- Anadema H. & A. Adams, 1854
- Argalista Iredale, 1915
- Bothropoma Thiele, 1924
- Cantrainea Jeffreys, 1883
- Collonia Gray, 1850
- Collonista Iredale, 1918
- Emiliotia Faber, 2006
- Homalopoma Carpenter, 1864
- Leptocollonia Powell, 1951
- Leptothyra Pease, 1869
- Subfamily Petropomatinae
- Genera brought into synonymy
- Neocollonia Kuroda & Habe, 1954 accepted as Bothropoma Thiele, 1924
- Thermocollonia Okutani & Fujikura, 1990 accepted as Cantrainea Jeffreys, 1883
References
- Spencer, H.; Marshall. B. (2009). All Mollusca except Opisthobranchia. In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp
- McLean J.H. & Kiel S. 2007. Cretaceous and living Colloniidae of the redefined subfamily Petropomatinae, with two new genera and one new species, with notes on opercular evolution in turbinoideans, and the fossil record of Liotiidae (Vetigastropoda: Turbinoidea). Paläontologische Zeitschrift 81(3): 254-266