Colloniidae

Colloniidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily:	Phasianelloidea
Family:	Colloniidae Cossmann, 1917
Subfamilies
Colloniinae Petropomatinae

Colloniidae is a family of small sea snails with calcareous opercula, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Vetigastropoda.

Taxonomy

2005 taxonomy

Colloniidae was listed as subfamily Colloniinae within the family Turbinidae within Turbinoidea according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

This taxon consists of four following tribes (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005):

• Colloniinae Cossmann, 1917
  • tribe Colloniini Cossmann, 1917 - synonym: Bothropomatinae Thiele, 1924 (inv.); Homalopomatinae Keen, 1960; Petropomatinae Cox, 1960
  • tribe † Adeorbisinini Monari, Conti & szabo, 1995
  • tribe † Crossostomatini Cox, 1960
  • tribe † Helicocryptini Cox, 1960

2008 taxonomy

Colloniidae was elevated to family level and (together with Phasianellidae) belongs to superfamily Phasianelloidea according to Williams et al. (2008).^[1]

It contains the following subfamilies:

• Colloniinae
• Petropomatinae

Genera

Genera in the family Colloniidae include:^[2]

Subfamily Colloniinae

• Anadema H. & A. Adams, 1854
• Argalista Iredale, 1915
• Bothropoma Thiele, 1924
• Cantrainea Jeffreys, 1883
• Collonia Gray, 1850
• Collonista Iredale, 1918
• Emiliotia Faber, 2006
• Homalopoma Carpenter, 1864
• Leptocollonia Powell, 1951
• Leptothyra Pease, 1869

Subfamily Petropomatinae

• Liotipoma McLean & Kiel, 2007

Genera brought into synonymy 

• Neocollonia Kuroda & Habe, 1954 accepted as Bothropoma Thiele, 1924
• Thermocollonia Okutani & Fujikura, 1990 accepted as Cantrainea Jeffreys, 1883

References

1. ^ Williams S. T., Karube S. & Ozawa T. (September 2008) "Molecular systematics of Vetigastropoda: Trochidae, Turbinidae and Trochoidea redefined". Zoologica Scripta 37(5): 483-506. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2008.00341.x
2. ^ WoRMS (2009). Colloniidae. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2009) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=382202 on 2010-04-17

• Spencer, H.; Marshall. B. (2009). All Mollusca except Opisthobranchia. In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp
• McLean J.H. & Kiel S. 2007. Cretaceous and living Colloniidae of the redefined subfamily Petropomatinae, with two new genera and one new species, with notes on opercular evolution in turbinoideans, and the fossil record of Liotiidae (Vetigastropoda: Turbinoidea). Paläontologische Zeitschrift 81(3): 254-266