Trochaclididae Explained

Trochaclididae, common name the false top snails,^[1] is a family of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Vetigastropoda (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).^[2]

This family has no subfamilies. The subfamily Acremodontinae is a synonym of Ataphridae.

Genera

• Acremodonta B. A. Marshall, 1983
• Acremodontina B. A. Marshall, 1995
• † Ataphrus Gabb, 1869 (belongs to the family Ataphridae Cossmann, 1915 † (nomen dubium))
• Austrotrochaclis B. A. Marshall, 1995
• † Levella Marwick, 1943
• Trochaclis Thiele, 1912

References

• Marshall, B.A. 1983: Acremodontinae: a new subfamily of the Trochidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). National Museum of New Zealand Records 2: 127-130 (p. 127)
• Williams S.T., Karube S. & Ozawa T. (2008) Molecular systematics of Vetigastropoda: Trochidae, Turbinidae and Trochoidea redefined. Zoologica Scripta 37: 483–506
• Marshall, B. A. (1995). Recent and Tertiary Trochaclididae from the southwest Pacific (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Trochoidea). The Veliger 38: 92-115

Further reading

• Gründel J. (November 2008) "Remarks to the classification and phylogeny of the Ataphridae Cossmann, 1915 (Gastropoda, Archaeogastropoda) in the Jurassic". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen, 250(2): 177–197.

Notes and References

1. http://www.molluscsoftasmania.net/Family%20pages/Ataphridae.html A Guide to the Marine Molluscs of Tasmania
2. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Trochaclididae Thiele, 1928. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=23133 on 2020-05-06