Seguenziidae
| Seguenziidae | |
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| Seguenzia monocingulata shell | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Seguenzioidea |
| Family: | Seguenziidae Verrill, 1884 |
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Seguenziidae is a
mollusks in the superfamily Seguenzioidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).[1]
Distribution
Species from this family occur in the
intertidal depths.[2]
Description
The thin, translucent, white shell has a trochiform shape. They are small or very small. Their maximum height is 22 mm. They are usually
nacreous. The inner lip has often a tooth-like fold. The outer lip has characteristically one to three concave notches (except in the genus Guttula). The chitinous operculum is multispiral. The rhipidoglossan radula has intermediate characteristics of the former order Archaeogastropoda (by having more than two pairs of marginal teeth) and the former order Mesogastropoda (by having a single pair of lateral teeth).[2]
Taxonomy
This family consists of four following subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005) with the following genera [3]
- Asthelysinae Marshall, 1991
- Anxietas Iredale, 1917
- Asthelys Quinn, 1987
- Eratasthelys Marshall, 1991
- Thelyssina Marshall, 1983
- Davisianinae Egorova, 1972 - synonyms: Putillinae F. Nordsieck, 1972; Oligomeriinae Egorov, 2000
- Davisiana Egorova, 1972
- Oligomeria Galkin & Golikov, 1985
- Guttulinae Goryachev, 1987
- Guttula Schepman, 1908
- Sericogyra Marshall, 1988
- Seguenziinae Verrill, 1884
- tribe Fluxinellini Marshall, 1991
- Ancistrobasis Dall, 1889
- Basilissa Watson, 1879
- Basilissopsis Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1897
- Calliobasis Marshall, 1983
- Fluxinella Marshall, 1983
- Thelyssa Bayer, 1971
- Visayaseguenzia Poppe, Tagaro & Dekker, 2006
- tribe Seguenziini Verrill, 1884
- Carenzia Quinn, 1983
- Hadroconus Quinn, 1987
- Halystes Marshall, 1988
- Halystina Marshall, 1991
- Quinnia Marshall, 1988
- Rotellenzia Quinn, 1987
- Seguenzia Jeffreys, 1876: the type genus
- Seguenziopsis Marshall, 1983
- tribe Fluxinellini Marshall, 1991
- Unassigned :
- Bathymargarites Warén & Bouchet, 1989
- Genera brought into synonymy
- Fluxiella Okutani, 1968: synonym of Fluxinella B.A. Marshall, 1983
- Seguenziella Marshall, 1983: synonym of Quinnia Marshall, 1988
References
- ^ a b Bouchet, P. (2012). Seguenziidae. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=23116 on 2013-03-26
- ^ a b Marshall, B.A. 1983: Recent and Tertiary Seguenziidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from the New Zealand region. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 10: 235-262
- ^ WoRMS : Seguenziidae; accessed : 13 September 2010
- Seguenza, G. 1876: Studii stratigrafici sulla formazione pliocenica dell'ltalia Meridionale. Bollettino del Regio Comitato Geologico d'Italia 5 & 6: 179-189
- Goryachev, W. N. (1979): On the system of deep-sea molluscan family Seguenziidae. P. 70-71 in: Likharev, I. M. ed., Molluscs: main results of their study - abstracts of communications. U.S.S.R Academy of Sciences Zoological Institute, sixth meeting on the investigation of molluscs. Nauka
- Bandel, K. (1979): The nacreous layer in the shells of the gastropod family Seguenziidae and its taxonomic significance. Biomineralisation 10 : 49 - 61
- Quinn J.F. (1983). A revision of the Seguenziacea Verrill, 1884 (Gastropoda : Prosobranchia). I. Summary and evaluation of the superfamily. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 96(4):725-757
- Marshall B.A. (1991). Mollusca Gastropoda : Seguenziidae from New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands. In A. Crosnier & P. Bouchet (Eds) Résultats des campagnes Musorstom, vol. 7. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, A, 150:41-109