Rostellariidae

Rostellariidae is a family of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Littorinimorpha.^[1]

Rostellariidae
Five views of a shell of Tibia fusus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Stromboidea
Family:	Rostellariidae Gabb, 1868
Synonyms[1]
Rimellidae Stewart, 1927 Tibiidae Golikov & Starobogatov, 1975

Taxonomy

Higher classification

Bouchet & Rocroi (2005)

This taxon is ranked at subfamily level Rostellariinae within the family Strombidae in the taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).^[2] Above this rank the superfamily Caenogastropoda contains the unranked clades Hypsogastropoda and Littorinimorpha respectively.

Morrison (2008)

Rostellariidae is ranked at family level for example by Morrison (2008).^[3][why?]

Genera

The family consists of the following genera:

• † Africoterebellum Eames, 1957
• † Amekichilus Eames, 1957
• † Amplogladius Cossmann, 1889
• † Calyptraphorus Conrad, 1857
• † Cyclomolops Gabb, 1868
• † Cyrtulotibia Eames, 1957
• † Dientomochilus Cossmann, 1904
• † Digitolabrum Cossmann, 1904
• † Ectinochilus Cossmann, 1889
• † Eotibia B. L. Clark, 1942
• † Mauryna de Gregorio, 1880
• † Rimella Agassiz, 1841
• Rimellopsis Lambiotte, 1979
• Rostellariella Thiele, 1929
• Strombolaria de Gregorio, 1880
• † Sulcogladius Sacco, 1893
• † Terebellomimus Pacaud, 2008
• † Terebellopsis Leymerie, 1846
• Tibia Röding, 1798 (synonyms: Gladius Mörch, 1852; Rostellaria Lamarck, 1799; Rostellum Montfort, 1810)
• Varicospira Eames, 1952

References

1. Bouchet, P. (2010). Rostellariidae. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=387400 on 2011-05-01
2. Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
3. Morrison H. M. (2008). "Descriptionon of Rostellariella barbieri n. sp. from the southern Cebu area of the central Philippines (Gastropoda: Stromboidea: Rostellariidae)". Club Conchylia Informationen 39(3-4): 26-31.

• Stewart, R. B. (1927). Gabb's California fossil type gastropods. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 78: 287–447, pls. 20–32.
• Bandel K. (2007) About the larval shell of some Stromboidea, connected to a review of the classification and phylogeny of the Strombimorpha (Caenogastropoda). Freiberger Forschungshefte, ser. C 524: 97-206.
• Kronenberg G.C. & Burger A.W. (2002) On the subdivision of Recent Tibia-like gastropods (Gastropoda, Stromboidea), with the recognition of the family Rostellariidae Gabb, 1868, and a note on the type species of Tibia Röding, 1798. Vita Malacologica 1: 39-48

External links

• Bouchet, P., Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia. 47(1-2): 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4.