Capulidae

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Kingdom Animalia Scientific name Capulidae Rank Family		Class Gastropoda Phylum Mollusca

Superfamily Capuloidea Fleming, 1822 Similar Calyptraeidae, Hipponicidae, Janthinidae, Trichotropis, Eulimidae

The Capulidae, the cap snails or cap shells, are a taxonomic family of limpet-like sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Littorinimorpha. Capulidae is the only family in the superfamily Capuloidea. According to taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005) the family Capulidae has no subfamilies.

The name Trichotropidae was previously used for this family, but this name is invalid, as it is a junior synonym.

Genera

Genera within the family Capulidae include:

Ariadnaria Habe, 1961

Capulus Montfort, 1810

Cerithioderma Conrad, 1860 (?)

Ciliatotropis Golikov, 1986

Discotrichoconcha Powell, 1951

Echinospira Girotti, 1970

Hyalorisia Dall, 1889

Icuncula Iredale, 1924

Krebsia Montfort, 1810 (?)

Lippistes Montfort, 1810 (?)

Lyocyclus Thiele, 1925

Neoiphinoe Habe, 1978

Malluvium Melvill, 1906 (?)

Rufodardanula Ponder, 1965 (?)

Separatista Gray, 1847

Torellia Lovén in Jeffreys, 1867

Trichamathina Habe, 1962

Trichosirius Finlay, 1926 (?)

Trichotropis Broderip and G. B. Sowerby I, 1829

Turritropis Habe, 1961

Zelippistes Finlay, 1927 (?)

Genera brought into synonymy

Actita Fischer von Waldheim, 1823: synonym of Capulus Montfort, 1810

Antitrichotropis Powell, 1951: synonym of Torellia Jeffreys, 1867

Brocchia Bronn, 1828: synonym of Capulus Montfort, 1810

Capulonix Iredale, 1929: synonym of Capulus Montfort, 1810

Iphinoe H. Adams & A. Adams, 1856 : synonym of Neoiphinoe Habe, 1978

Neoconcha E.A. Smith, 1907: synonym of Torellia (Neoconcha) E.A. Smith, 1907

Ovotropis Egorov & Alexeyev, 1998: synonym of Neoiphinoe Habe, 1978

Pileopsis Lamarck, 1822 : synonym of Capulus Montfort, 1810

Trichoconcha E.A. Smith, 1907: synonym of Torellia Jeffreys, 1867

References

Capulidae Wikipedia

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