Pyramidelloidea

Taxobox
name =Pyramidelloidea


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo = Heterobranchia
ordo = Heterostropha
superfamilia = Pyramidelloidea
superfamilia_authority = J.E. Gray, 1840
subdivision_ranks = Families

Above the species level close to 400 named taxa are referred to the gastropod superfamily Pyramidelloidea. It is a voluminous taxon of mostly small marine snails. Pyramidelloidea has both fossil and recent members.

Families and subfamilies in the superfamily Pyramidelloidea

Taxonomy of Schander, Van Aartsen & Corgan (1999)

*Superfamily Pyramidelloidea Gray, 1840
**Family Amathinidae Ponder, 1987
**Family Ebalidae Warén, 1994 = Anisocyclidae van Aartsen, 1995
**Family Odostomiidae Pelseneer, 1928
***Subfamily Odostomiinae Pelseneer, 1928
***Subfamily Chrysallidinae Saurin, 1958
***Subfamily Odostomellinae Saurin, 1958
***Subfamily Cyclostremellinae Moore, 1966
**Family Pyramidellidae J.E. Gray, 1840
***Subfamily Pyramidellinae J.E. Gray, 1840
***Subfamily Sayellinae Wise, 1996
**Family Syrnolidae Saurin, 1958
***Subfamily Syrnolinae Saurin, 1958
***Subfamily Tiberiinae Saurin, 1958
**Family Turbonillidae Bronn, 1849
***Subfamily Turbonillinae Bronn, 1849
***Subfamily Eulimellinae Saurin, 1958
***Subfamily Cingulininae Saurin, 1959

Pyramidelloidean genera of uncertain familial position

* Bidentata de Castellanos, 1982
* Calyptopolyptychia Gougerot, 1968
* Laeviselica Gougerot & Le Renard, 1977
* Lysacme Dall & Bartsch, 1904
* Oopyramis Thiele, 1930
* Sulcorinella Dall & Bartsch, 1904

Distribution

This taxon is found worldwide.

References

*cite book
last = Gray
first = J. E.
title = Synopsis of the contents of the British Museum, 42th edition
publisher = London
date = 1840
pages =370 pp
month =
isbn =
* cite journal
author = Schander, C., van Aartsen, J. J., Corgan, J. C.
year = 1999
date=
title = Families and genera of the Pyramidelloidea (Mollusca: Gastropoda)
journal = Bollettino Malacologico
volume =34
issue = 9-12
pages = 145–166
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doi =