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Dialidae

Dialidae, common name dialids, is a family of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Cerithioidea.

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Dialidae
Diala suturalis (Adams, 1853)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: incertae sedis
Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Dialidae
E. A. Kay, 19791
Diversity2
8 extant species

Dialidae, common name dialids, is a family of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Cerithioidea .3

According to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005), the family Dialidae has no subfamilies.

Genera

Genus within the family Dialidae include:

  • Diala A. Adams, 1861 - type genus of the family Dialidae,3 synonym: Laevitesta Laseron, 1950
  • Glosia Cossmann, 1921: extinct genus that belongs to the Neotaenioglossa
  • Mellitestea Laseron, 1956
  • Paradiala Laseron, 1956
  • Rissoalaba Oyama, 1954 4
References

References

  1. Kay E. A. (1979). Hawaiian marine shells, page 114.
  2. Strong E. E., Colgan D. J., Healy J. M., Lydeard C., Ponder W. F. & Glaubrecht M. (2011). "Phylogeny of the gastropod superfamily Cerithioidea using morphology and molecules". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 162(1): 43-89. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00670.x.
  3. Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
  4. Gbif : Rissoalaba