Heteroneritidae Explained

†Heteroneritidae is an extinct taxonomic family of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamilia Pyramidelloidea.

Taxonomy

2005 taxonomy

Heteroneritidae has been classified in the Pyramidelloidea within the informal group Lower Heterobranchia in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005). This family has no subfamilies.

2010 taxonomy

Jörger et al. (2010) have redefined major groups within the Heterobranchia and they moved Pyramidelloidea to Panpulmonata.^[1]

Genera

Genera within the family Heteroneritidae include:

• Heteronerita Gründel, 1998 - type genus of the family Heteroneritidae
  • Heteronerita rotundata http://pbdb.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=checkTaxonInfo&taxon_name=Heteronerita+rotundata&is_real_user=1

Notes and References

1. Jörger K. M., Stöger I., Kano Y., Fukuda H., Knebelsberger T. & Schrödl M. (2010). "On the origin of Acochlidia and other enigmatic euthyneuran gastropods, with implications for the systematics of Heterobranchia". BMC Evolutionary Biology 10: 323. .