Pseudomelatomidae is a family of predatory sea snails , marine gastropods included in the superfamily Conoidea (previously Conacea) and part of the Neogastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005 ).[2] [1]
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A live individual of Pseudomelatoma torosa in situ Crepidula adunca In 1995 Kantor elevated the subfamily Pseudomelatominae to the status of family Pseudomelatomidae.[3]
In 2011 Bouchet , Kantor et al . moved the Crassispirinae and Zonulispirinae and numerous genera of snails loosely called turrid snails (which at that point had been placed in the family Conidae ) and placed them in the family Pseudomelatomidae. This was based on a cladistic analysis of shell morphology , radular characteristics , anatomical characters, and a dataset of molecular sequences of three gene fragments.[2]
Genera within the family Pseudomelatomidae include:
Abyssocomitas Aguilaria Anticomitas Antimelatoma Antiplanes Benthodaphne † Boreocomitas
Brachytoma Burchia Buridrillia Calcatodrillia Carinodrillia Carinoturris Cheungbeia † Clavatoma
Cleospira McLean, 1971 Comitas Compsodrillia Conorbela Conticosta Crassiclava Crassispira Cretaspira Dallspira Doxospira Funa Gibbaspira Glossispira Hindsiclava Hormospira [4] Inquisitor Knefastia Kurilohadalia Kurodadrillia Leucosyrinx Lioglyphostoma Maesiella Mammillaedrillia Megasurcula Meggittia Miraclathurella Monilispira Naudedrillia Nymphispira Otitoma Paracomitas Pilsbryspira Plicisyrinx Pseudomelatoma [5] Pseudotaranis Ptychobela Pyrgospira Rhodopetoma Sediliopsis Shutonia Strictispira McLean, 1971 Striospira Thelecythara Tiariturris [6] Viridrillia Zonulispira
Epidirona Iredale, 1931: synonym of Epideira Lioglyphostomella Shuto, 1970: synonym of Otitoma Macrosinus Beu, 1970: synonym of Paracomitas Rectiplanes Bartsch, 1944: synonym of Antiplanes Rectisulcus Habe, 1958: synonym of Antiplanes Schepmania Shuto, 1970: synonym of Shutonia Thelecytharella Shuto, 1969: synonym of Otitoma Turrigemma Berry, 1958: synonym of Hindsiclava Viridrillina Bartsch, 1943: synonym of Viridrillia
Kantor Y., 1995, Phylogeny and relationships of Neogastropoda . Pp. 221–230, in: J. D. Taylor, ed., Origin and evolutionary radiation of the Mollusca. Oxford University Press
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