Diastomatidae is a family of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Cerithioidea.[3]

Diastomatidae
Diastoma costellatum (Lamarck, 1804), the type species from the Eocene of France
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Diastomatidae
A. E. M. Cossmann, 1894[1]
Diversity[2]
1 extant species
Synonyms[3]
  • Diastomidae Cossmann, 1893
  • Ewekoroiidae Adegoke, 1977[4]

According to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005) the family Diastomatidae has no subfamilies.

Genera

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Genera in the family Diastomatidae include:

References

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  1. ^ Cossmann A. E. M. (1894). Journal de Conchyliologie 41(4): 322.
  2. ^ Strong E. E., Colgan D. J., Healy J. M., Lydeard C., Ponder W. F. & Glaubrecht M. (2011). "Phylogeny of the gastropod superfamily Cerithioidea using morphology and molecules". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 162(1): 43-89. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00670.x.
  3. ^ a b c d Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
  4. ^ Adegoke (1977). Bulletins of American Paleontology 71(295): 100.
  5. ^ a b c d Bandel K. (2006). "Families of the Cerithioidea and related superfamilies (Palaeo-Caenogastropoda; Mollusca) from the Triassic to the Recent characterized by protoconch morphology - including the description of new taxa". Freiberger Forschungshefte C 511: 59-138. PDF[permanent dead link].
  6. ^ a b c d e f g Diastoma. The Paleobiology Database, accessed 26 June 2011.
  7. ^ Rosenberg, G. (2010). Diastoma melanioides (Reeve, 1849). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=527561 on 2011-06-26