Tiberia

Tiberia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
Superfamily: Pyramidelloidea
Family: Pyramidellidae
Subfamily: Syrnolinae
Tribe: Tiberiini
Saurin, 1958[1]
Genus: Tiberia
Monterosato, 1875[2]
Synonyms

Tiberiinae

Tiberia is a genus of minute parasitic sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.[3]

Contents

Taxonomy

According to Schander, Van Aartsen & Corgan (1999) the subfamily Tiberiinae contains a single genus, Tiberia.[4]

Tiberiinae has been one of eleven recognised subfamilies in the family Pyramidellidae according to the taxonomy of Ponder & Lindberg (1997).[5]

However, in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005), this subfamily has been downgraded to the rank of tribe Tiberiini in the subfamily Syrnolinae.[6]

Tiberia is the type genus of the tribe Tiberiini.[6]

Description

The shells have many-whorled, umbilicate shells that lack both shell sculpture and the tooth/teeth that are characteristic for most other members of the family Pyramidellidae. They may, however, have slight folds on the columella.

Species

Species in the genus Tiberia include:

References

  1. ^ Saurin, E. (1958). "Pyramidellidae de Pho-Hai (Sud Viet-Nam)". Annales Faculté des Sciences Saigon 1958: 63–86, pl. 1–9. 
  2. ^ Monterosato T. A. de M. (1875). Atti Acad. Sci. Lett. Arti Palermo, (N.S.) 5: 31.
  3. ^ WoRMS (2010). Tiberia Monterosato, 1875. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138420 on 2011-03-21
  4. ^ Schander C., van Aartsen J. J. & Corgan J. C. (1999). "Families and genera of the Pyramidelloidea (Mollusca: Gastropoda)". Bollettino Malacologico 34 (9-12): 145–166. 
  5. ^ Ponder, W.F. & Lindberg, D. R. (1997). "Towards a phylogeny of gastropod molluscs: an analysis using morphological characters". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 119 (2): 88–265. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1997.tb00137.x. 
  6. ^ a b Bouchet P., Rocroi J.-P., Frýda J., Hausdorf B., Ponder W., Valdés Á. & Warén A. (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia: International Journal of Malacology (Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks) 47 (1-2): 1–397. ISBN 3925919724. ISSN 0076-2997. http://www.archive.org/details/malacologia47122005inst. 
  7. ^ WoRMS (2010). Tiberia apicifusca van Aartsen, Gittenberger & Goud, 1998. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=224466 on 2011-03-21
  8. ^ Gofas, S. (2010). Tiberia minuscula (Monterosato, 1880). In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=141049 on 2011-03-21
  9. ^ Gofas, S. (2010). Tiberia minusculoides (van Aartsen, Gittenberger & Goud, 1998). In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=141050 on 2011-03-21