Ringiculidae

Ringiculidae

Taxobox
name = Ringiculidae


image_caption =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
ordo = Opisthobranchia
subordo = Architectibranchia
superfamilia = Ringiculoidea
familia = Ringiculidae
familia_authority = Philippi, 1853
subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision = See text.
synonyms =

Ringiculidae are a family of minute deep water sea snails or micromolluscs, marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the order Heterostropha.

Distribution

Species in this family are found in most tropical and temperate seas.

hell description

Ringiculid shells are small to minute, usually solid, white, ovate-globose, but with a conical spire, outer lip thickened by a varix, inner lip with two to four entering plications.

Genera in the family Ringiculidae

* "Microglyphis" Dall, 1902
* "Ringicula" Deshayes, 1838

References

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* Powell A. W. B., "New Zealand Mollusca", William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1


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