Skeneidae

Family of gastropods From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Skeneidae are a speciose family of minute to small marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Trochoidea.[1]

Phylum:Mollusca
Order:Trochida
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Skeneidae
Two views of a shell of Skenea catenoides
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Skeneidae
Clark W., 1851
Type genus
Skenea
Fleming, 1824<
Genera and species

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Synonyms[1]

Skeneinae Clark W., 1851

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The former subfamily Skeneinae (in the family Turbinidae) was loosely defined. Information on the specific characters of this family are incompletely described. Recent molecular evidence suggests that a number of these genera in Skeneinae probably belong to other families altogether, so many of these assignments must be regarded as provisional. Williams noted in 2012 that "this group is in a desperate need of revision".[2] [3][4] The subfamily Skeneidae has been upgraded to the status of family Skeneidae, comprising most genera formerly in the subfamily Skeneinae. But even then, the family Skeneidae represents a polyphyletic, “skeneimorph” assemblage.[5] It should be pruned of many genera which would go to the superfamily Seguenzioidea according to Kano (2008) [6] Until a researcher formally assigns them to a seguenzioid family in the literature, the database WoRMS prefers to keep them unchanged.

This family is assemblage of small to very small shells that lack a nacreous structure. The shells are white and show no color patterns.

Genera

Genera moved to other families
Genera brought into synonymy
  • Chunula Thiele, 1925: synonym of Granigyra Dall, 1889
  • Crosseia P. Fischer, 1885: synonym of Crossea A. Adams, 1865
  • Gottoina A. Adams, 1863: synonym of Conradia A. Adams, 1860
  • Helisalia Laseron, 1954: synonym of Omalogyra Jeffreys, 1859
  • Lapidicola Egorova, 1972: synonym of Lissotesta Iredale, 1915
  • Porcupinia Cossmann, 1900: synonym of Cirsonella Angas, 1877
  • Skeneia [sic]: synonym of Skenea Fleming, 1825
  • Tharsiella Bush, 1897: synonym of Cirsonella Angas, 1877
  • Tharsis Jeffreys, 1883:synonym of Cirsonella Angas, 1877

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