Colloniidae | |
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Homalopoma sanguineum shell | |
Collonia granulosa shells | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
Order: | Trochida |
Superfamily: | Trochoidea Cossmann, 1917 |
Colloniidae is a family of small sea snails with calcareous opercula, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Vetigastropoda.[1]
Colloniidae was listed as subfamily Colloniinae within the family Turbinidae within Turbinoidea according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005.
This taxon consists of four following tribes (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005):
Colloniidae was elevated to family level and (together with Phasianellidae) belongs to superfamily Phasianelloidea according to Williams et al. (2008).[2] McLean (2012) added two more subfamilies Liotipomatinae and Moelleriinae.[3]
In 2017 Colloniidae was classified in the order Trochida.[4]
It contains the following subfamilies:
Genera in the family Colloniidae include:[5]