Tornidae

Taxobox
name = Tornidae
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo = Caenogastropoda
ordo = Sorbeoconcha
subordo = Hypsogastropoda
Infraordo = Littorinimorpha
superfamilia = Rissooidea
familia = Tornidae
familia_authority = Sacco, 1896Verify source|date=August 2008
subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision = See text.

Tornidae is a family of very small and minute sea snails with an operculum, marine gastropod mollusks in the order Sorbeoconcha.

These small shells are thin, fragile, rather depressed, sculptured with spiral cords or keels, and widely umbilicated.

Taxonomy

The following subfamilies have been recognized in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi of 2005
* Circulinae Fretter & Graham, 1962
* Torninae Sacco, 1896 (1884)
* Teinostomatinae Cossmann, 1917
* Vitrinellinae Bush, 1897

Genera in the family Tornidae

* "Cochliolepis" Stimpson, 1958
* "Naricava" Hedley, 1913
* "Ponderinella"
* "Pseudoliotina"
* "Pygmaeorota"
* "Sigaretornus"
* "Tornus" Turton and Kingston, 1830

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
* [http://zipcodezoo.com/Key/Tornidae_Family.asp ZipCodeZoo]