Biology:Lironobidae

Short description: Family of sea snails

Lironobidae
Attenuata schoutanica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	[[Biology:|Rissooidea]]
Family:	Lironobidae Ponder, 1967

Lironobidae is a family of gastropods belonging to the order Littorinimorpha.

Genera:

• Attenuata Hedley, 1918
• Lironoba Iredale, 1915
• Merelina Iredale, 1915

References

• Ponder, W. F. (1967). The classification of the Rissoidae and Orbitestellidae with descriptions of some new taxa. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Zoology. 9(17): 193-224, pls 1-13.

External links

• Criscione, F., Ponder, W. F., Köhler, F., Takano, T. & Kano, Y. (2017). A molecular phylogeny of Rissoidae (Caenogastropoda: Rissooidea) allows testing the diagnostic utility of morphological traits. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 179 , 23–40.

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