Isospiridae Explained

Isospiridae is an extinct family of fossil sea snails, Paleozoic gastropod mollusks.^[1]

This family is unassigned to superfamily. This family has no subfamilies according to the taxonomy by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005). It is classified as "Basal taxa that are certainly Gastropoda" by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005).^[1]

Genera

• Isospira Koken, 1897 - type genus of the family Isospiridae. Species include:^[2]
  • Isospira bucanioides Koken, 1897
  • Isospira huttoni Cowper Reed, 1921
  • Isospira lepida Perner, 1903
  • Isospira nautilina Koken & Perner, 1925
  • Isospira reinwaldti Öpik, 1930
  • Isospira reticulatus Wängberg-Eriksson, 1964 - synonym: Isospira reticulata

Taxonomy

Peter J. Wagner consider Isospiridae as synonym of Cyrtonellidae within Tergomya,^{[3] [4]} The Paleobiology Database has become adatapted to^[4] this unpublished opinion by Wagner. This alternate taxonomy is as: Tergomya, Cyrtonellida, Cyrtonellidae.^[4]

Notes and References

1. Bouchet, P. . Rocroi, J.-P. . 2005 . Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families . Malacologia . 47 . 1-2 .
2. http://paleodb.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=basicTaxonInfo&taxon_no=8340 "Isospira"
3. [Peter J. Wagner|Wagner P. J.]
4. http://paleodb.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=basicTaxonInfo&taxon_no=70839 "Cyrtonellidae"