Kingdom Animalia Class Gastropoda Rank Family | Phylum Mollusca Superfamily Cerithioidea | |
Similar Diastomatidae, Cingulopsidae, Anabathridae, Finella, Batillariidae | ||
Scaliolidae, common name scaliolids, is a family of minute sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs or micromollusks in the superfamily Cerithioidea, the ceriths and their allies.
Contents
Sand grains agglutinate to the teleoconch in the type genus Scaliola.
2005 taxonomy
According to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005) the family Scaliolidae has no subfamilies and has Obtortionidae Thiele, 1925 and Finellidae Thile, 1929 as its synonyms.
2006 taxonomy
Bandel (2006) classified Scaliolidae within the superfamily Cerithioidea, but Obtortionidae at its own family level and Finellidae as a subfamily of Bittiidae.
Genera
Genera within the family Scaliolidae include:
References
Scaliolidae Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA