Anomphalidae

Shells of the Anomphalidae are rounded, almost discoidal, low-spired trochospiral inform, possibly with a globular body whorl. The aperture is oval, without exhalent slit or crease. The umbilicus is narrow, open or closed. The inner shell layer is seemingly nacreous. The shell surface is generally smooth, ornamentation consisting of fine transverse lyrae or growth lines parallel to the aperture lip.^[2]

The Anomphalidae differ from the Euomphalcea to which they have been reassigned ^[3] in being more trochoidal, in lacking the angulation on the upper whorl surface characteristic of Euomphalacea, and in having the inner shell layer seemingly nacreous. (The inner shell layers of the Euomphalacea may be of laminar aragonite, but are never nacreous.) The Anomphalidea differ from the Pleurotomariacea in lacking the often deep slit or selenizone, which is characteristic of that taxon.^[2]

J Brooks Knight, et al, in the Treatise, 1960,^[2] assigned 10 genera to the Annomphalidae. They are

Anomphalus Meek and Worthen 1866, the type genus

Cycloscena Fletcher 1958

Eiselia Dietz 1911

Isonema Meek and Worthen 1866

Pycnomphalus Lindström 1884

Turbocheilus Perner 1907

Sosiolytes Gemmellaro 1889

Straparella Fischer 1885

Turbinilopsis de Koninck 1881

Tychonia de Koninck 1881

At present the Anompalideae ^[3] has been expanded to include 17 genera in two subfamilies established by Peel, 1984.

Added to Anomphalus, Cycloscena, Eiselia, and Isonema in the Anomphalinae are:
Antirotiela Cossmann 1918, given in the Treatise as a synonym for Anomphalus

Frydacosta Cook and Nützel 2005

Delphinuella Heidelberger 2001

Givediscus Heidelberger 2001

Littorella Heidelberger 2001

Nodinella Heidelberger 2001

Contained within the Pycnomphalinae in addition to Pycnomphalus, Turbocheilus, Sosiolites, Strapariella, and Tychonia:

Pycnotrochus Perner 1903

Turbinilopsis de Koninck 1881

Pycnotrochus, from the Upper Silurian of Europe, was removed from the Sinuopeidae (Pleurotomariacea); the lip has a sinus more characteristic of the original family. Turbinopsis, from the Lower Devonian of North America, was removed from the Palaeotrochidae (Palaeotrochacea); has a spiral chord not found on typical Anomphalidae and an aperture with a thicker, wider lip, also atypical.

Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005 simply included the Anomphalidae in "basal taxa that are certainly Gastropoda".