Seraphsidae

Family of gastropods

Seraphsidae
Terebellum terebellum, a member of the family Seraphsidae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Stromboidea
Family: Seraphsidae
J.E. Gray, 1853
Synonyms
  • Terebellidae (Homonym of Terebellidae Grube, 1850 based on Terebella Linnaeus, 1767 [Annelida])
  • Seraphidae (Orthographic variant, misspelling, per IRMNG, based on Seraphs [in French: Seraphe] Montfort, 1810; from Seraphina Gray, 1853 [Strombidae])[1]

Seraphsidae is a family of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Stromboidea.[2][3]

Genera

There is one extant genus within the family Seraphsidae:

  • Terebellum Röding, 1798

All other Seraphsidae genera are known only from the fossil record:[4]

  • †Diameza Deshayes, 1865
  • †Mauryna de Gregorio, 1880
  • †Miniseraphs Jung,1974
  • †Paraseraphs Jung, 1974
  • †Pseudoterebellum Maxwell, Rymer & Congdon, 2021
  • †Seraphs Montfort, 1810

Synonyms for Terebellum

  • Artopoia Gistel, 1848: synonym of Terebellum Bruguière, 1798 (invalid: unnecessary substitute name for Terebellum)
  • Lucis Gistel, 1848: synonym of Terebellum Bruguière, 1798
  • Terebrina Rafinesque, 1815: synonym of Terebellum Bruguière, 1798

References

  1. ^
    • "IRMNG name details: Seraphidae Gray, 1853". IRMNG – Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera.
    • Kronenberg, Gijs C.; Wieneke, Ulrich (July 2020). "Röding's Stromboidea (Caenogastropoda): the remains of the Bolten collection in the Museum der Natur Gotha (Germany), a critical review of Röding's taxa, and notes on the Schmidt catalogue" (PDF). Basteria. 84 (1–3): 85–126. The ... problem is on the spelling of the family name: Seraphidae or Seraphsidae. Both spellings are present in the literature ...
    • Wieneke, Ulrich; Stoutjesdijk, Han; Simonet, Philippe; Liverani, Virgilio, eds. (10 February 2021). "Seraphidae (Stromboidea) Gray, 1853". Gastropoda Stromboidea.
  2. ^ "Seraphsidae Gray, 1853". WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species.
  3. ^ Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2).
  4. ^ "Taxon Details: Seraphsidae Gray, 1853". IRMNG – Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera.

Further reading

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  • Bouchet P., Rocroi J.P., Hausdorf B., Kaim A., Kano Y., Nützel A., Parkhaev P., Schrödl M. & Strong E.E. (2017). "Revised classification, nomenclator and typification of gastropod and monoplacophoran families". Malacologia. 61 (1-2): 1–526.
  • Gray, J. E. (1853). "On the division of ctenobranchous gasteropodous Mollusca into larger groups and families". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 2 (11): 124–132
    • Gray, J. E. (January 1853). "On the division of ctenobranchous gasteropodous Mollusca into larger groups and families". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 21 (1): 32–44. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1853.tb07174.x.
  • Jung P. (1974). "A revision of the family Seraphsidae (Gastropoda: Strombacea)". Paleontographica Americana. 8 (47): 72 pp., 16 pls.
  • Maxwell, Stephen J.; Liverani, Virgilio; Rymer, Tasmin L.; Congdon, Bradley C. (2018). "A revision of Terebellum delicatum Kuroda and Kawamoto in Kawamoto and Tanabe; 1956 (Gastropoda Seraphsidae)". The Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland. 123: 61–67. doi:10.5962/p.357828.
  • Maxwell, Stephen J.; Rymer, Tasmin L.; Congdon, Bradley C. (22 June 2021). "Resolving phylogenetic and classical nomenclature: A revision of Seraphsidae Jung, 1974 (Gastropoda: Neostromboidae)". Zootaxa. 4990 (3): 401–453. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4990.3.1. PMID 34186750. S2CID 235686526.
Taxon identifiers
Seraphsidae


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