Dialidae

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Dialidae, common name dialids, is a family of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Cerithioidea .[3]

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Dialidae
Diala suturalis (Adams, 1853)
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: incertae sedis
Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Dialidae
E. A. Kay, 1979[1]
Diversity[2]
8 extant species
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According to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005), the family Dialidae has no subfamilies.

Genera

Genus within the family Dialidae include:

  • Diala A. Adams, 1861 - type genus of the family Dialidae,[3] synonym: Laevitesta Laseron, 1950
  • Glosia Cossmann, 1921: extinct genus that belongs to the Neotaenioglossa
  • Mellitestea Laseron, 1956
  • Paradiala Laseron, 1956
  • Rissoalaba Oyama, 1954 [4]

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