Pseudomelatomidae

Pseudomelatomidae

A live individual of Pseudomelatoma torosa in situ with an attached individual of Crepidula adunca on top
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Pseudomelatomidae Morrison, 1965

Pseudomelatomidae is a family of predatory sea snails, marine gastropods included in the superfamily Conoidea (previously Conacea) and part of the Neogastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). ^[1]

This family has no subfamilies.

Genera

Genera within the family Pseudomelatomidae include:

Austrocarina Laseron 1954 ^[2]
- Austrocarina recta (Hedley, 1903)
Pseudomelatoma Dall, 1918^[3]
Hormospira Berry, 1958 ^[4]
- Hormospira maculosa (Sowerby I, 1834)
Tiariturris Berry, 1958^[5]
- Tiariturris libya (Dall, 1919)
- Tiariturris spectabilis Berry, 1958

^ P. Bouchet, Yu. I. Kantor, A. Sysoev & N. Puillandre (2011). "A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda)". Journal of Molluscan Studies 77 (3): 273–308. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyr017.
^ Laseron (1954). Review of the New South Wales Turridae, Roy. Zoo. Soc. N.S.W., Sydney, 21.
^ Dall (1918). Proc. U.S. nat. Mus. 54(2238): 317.
^ Berry (1958). Leafl. Malac. 1: 90.
^ Berry (1958). Leafl. Malac. 1: 87.