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Isospiridae

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Gastropoda

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Rank
  
Family

Similar
  
Aldanellidae, Cycloneritimorpha, Lottiidae, Neritimorpha

Isospiridae is an extinct family of fossil sea snails, Paleozoic gastropod mollusks.

Contents

This family is unassigned to superfamily. This family has no subfamilies according to the taxonomy by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005). It is classified as "Basal taxa that are certainly Gastropoda" by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005).

Genera

  • Isospira Koken, 1897 - type genus of the family Isospiridae. Species include:
  • Isospira bucanioides Koken, 1897
  • Isospira huttoni Cowper Reed, 1921
  • Isospira lepida Perner, 1903
  • Isospira nautilina Koken & Perner, 1925
  • Isospira reinwaldti Öpik, 1930
  • Isospira reticulatus Wängberg-Eriksson, 1964 - synonym: Isospira reticulata

    • Taxonomy

    Peter J. Wagner consider Isospiridae as synonym of Cyrtonellidae within Tergomya, The Paleobiology Database has become adatapted to this unpublished opinion by Wagner. This alternate taxonomy is as: Tergomya, Cyrtonellida, Cyrtonellidae.

    References

    Isospiridae Wikipedia
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