• Source: Skeneidae

The Skeneidae are a speciose family of minute to small marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Trochoidea.
The former subfamily Skeneinae (in the family Turbinidae) was loosely defined. Information on the specific characters of this family are incompletely described. Recent molecular evidence suggests that a number of these genera in Skeneinae probably belong to other families altogether, so many of these assignments must be regarded as provisional. Williams noted in 2012 that "this group is in a desperate need of revision".
The subfamily Skeneidae has been upgraded to the status of family Skeneidae, comprising most genera formerly in the subfamily Skeneinae. But even then, the family Skeneidae represents a polyphyletic, “skeneimorph” assemblage. It should be pruned of many genera which would go to the superfamily Seguenzioidea according to Kano (2008)
Until a researcher formally assigns them to a seguenzioid family in the literature, the database WoRMS prefers to keep them unchanged.
This family is assemblage of small to very small shells that lack a nacreous structure. The shells are white and show no color patterns.




Genera



Genera moved to other families

Bathyxylophila B. A. Marshall, 1988: moved to family Larocheidae Finlay, 1927
Conradia A. Adams, 1860: moved to the family Crosseolidae Hickman, 2013
Crossea A. Adams, 1865: moved to the family Crosseolidae Hickman, 2013
Crosseola Iredale, 1924: moved to the family Crosseolidae Hickman, 2013
Genera brought into synonymy

Chunula Thiele, 1925: synonym of Granigyra Dall, 1889
Crosseia P. Fischer, 1885: synonym of Crossea A. Adams, 1865
Gottoina A. Adams, 1863: synonym of Conradia A. Adams, 1860
Helisalia Laseron, 1954: synonym of Omalogyra Jeffreys, 1859
Lapidicola Egorova, 1972: synonym of Lissotesta Iredale, 1915
Porcupinia Cossmann, 1900: synonym of Cirsonella Angas, 1877
Skeneia [sic]: synonym of Skenea Fleming, 1825
Tharsiella Bush, 1897: synonym of Cirsonella Angas, 1877
Tharsis Jeffreys, 1883:synonym of Cirsonella Angas, 1877




References



Hickman, C.S. & McLean, J.H. (1990) Systematic revision and suprageneric classification of trochacean gastropods.; Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Science Series, 35, 1–169
Warén, A. (1991) New and little known skeneimorph gastropods from the Mediterranean Sea and the adjacent Atlantic Ocean. Bollettino Malacologico, 27, 149–248.




External links



Seashells of New South Wales: Family Skeneidae

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Skeneidae
• Cirsonella kerguelensis
• Dillwynella ingens
• Skenea serpuloides
• Lodderena tanae
• Lodderena omanensis
• Bathyxylophila peroniana
• Munditiella kirai
• Bruceiella pruinosa
• Lopheliella hermesae