Nerrhenidae

Nerrhenidae
Nerrhenidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Neritimorpha
Superfamily: Nerrhenoidea
Bandel & Heidelberger, 2001
Family: Nerrhenidae
Bandel & Heidelberger, 2001[1]

Nerrhenidae is an extinct taxonomic family of fossil sea snails, marine, gastropod mollusks.[2] Nerrhenidae is the only family in the superfamily Nerrhenoidea.[2]

Genera

Genera within the family Nerrhenidae include:

  • Nerrhena - the type genus

References

  1. ^ Bandel K. & Heidelberger D. (2001). "The new family Nerrhenidae (Neritimorpha, Gastropoda) from the Givetian of Germany". N.Jb. Geol. Paläont. (12): 705-718; 8 figs., Stuttgart.
  2. ^ a b Bouchet P., Rocroi J.-P., Frýda J., Hausdorf B., Ponder W., Valdés Á. & Warén A. (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia: International Journal of Malacology (Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks) 47 (1-2): 1–397. ISBN 3925919724. ISSN 0076-2997. http://www.archive.org/details/malacologia47122005inst.