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Pickworthiidae

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Pickworthiidae
Three shells of Reynellona natalis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Pickworthiidae
Iredale, 1917
Type species
Mareleptopoma karpatensis Moolenbeek & Faber, 1984

Pickworthiidae is a family of small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Cerithioidea. [1]

Subfamilies

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The following three subfamilies are recognized in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005):

  • Subfamily Pickworthiinae Iredale, 1917 - synonym: Reynellonidae Iredale, 1917
  • Subfamily Sherborniinae Iredale, 1917 - synonym: Faxiidae Ravn, 1933
  • Subfamily Pelycidiinae Ponder & Hall, 1983: raised to the rank of family Pelycidiidae by Ponder W.F. & Hall S.J. (1983)

Genera

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Genera in the family Pickworthiidae include:[2]

Subfamily Pickworthiinae Iredale, 1917 (synonym: Reynellonidae)

Subfamily Sherborniinae Iredale, 1917 (synonym: Faxiidae)

Genera brought into synonymy
  • Latilabrum Kuroda & Habe, 1991: synonym of Microliotia Boettger, 1902
  • Mecoliotia Hedley, 1899: synonym of Sansonia Jousseaume, 1892
  • Pickworthia Iredale, 1917: synonym of Sansonia Jousseaume, 1892
shell of Sansonia kirkpatricki

References

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  1. ^ a b MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Pickworthiidae Iredale, 1917. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=224785 on 2021-06-21
  2. ^ Pickworthiinae. WoRMS.
  • Jensen, R. H. (1997). A Checklist and Bibliography of the Marine Molluscs of Bermuda. Unp. , 547 pp
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