Trochaclididae, common name the false top snails, is a family of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Vetigastropoda (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
This family has no subfamilies. The subfamily Acremodontinae is a synonym of Ataphridae.
Genera
- Acremodonta <small>B. A. Marshall, 1983</small>
- Acremodontina <small>B. A. Marshall, 1995</small>
- â Ataphrus <small>Gabb, 1869</small> (belongs to the family Ataphridae <small>Cossmann, 1915</small> â (nomen dubium) )
- Austrotrochaclis <small>B. A. Marshall, 1995</small>
- â Levella <small>Marwick, 1943</small>
- Trochaclis <small>Thiele, 1912</small>
References
- 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: 483âÂÂ506
- Marshall, B. A. (1995). Recent and Tertiary Trochaclididae from the southwest Pacific (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Trochoidea). The Veliger 38: 92-115
Further reading
- 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): 177âÂÂ197.