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]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Seguenzioidea |
| Family: | Trochaclididae Thiele, 1928 |
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This family has no subfamilies. The subfamily Acremodontinae is a synonym of Ataphridae.
Genera
edit- 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
edit- ^ A Guide to the Marine Molluscs of Tasmania accessed 25 October 2009
- ^ 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
- 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
edit- 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. doi:10.1127/0077-7749/2008/0250-0177