Cerastidae

Cerastidae

Drawing of apertural and abapertural view of the shell of Rhachistia rhodotaenia.
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Heterobranchia
Order:	Stylommatophora
Suborder:	Helicina
Infraorder:	Pupilloidei
Superfamily:	Pupilloidea
Family:	Cerastidae Wenz, 1923^[1]
Synonyms^[2]
Cerastuidae Wenz, 1930 Pachnodidae Steenberg, 1925

Achatinelloides Nevill, 1878^[3]
Altenaia Zilch, 1972
Amimopina Solem, 1964^[4]
Archeorachis Schileyko, 1998
Cerastus E. von Martens, 1860
Conulinus E. von Martens, 1895
Darwininitium Budha & Mordan, 2012
Euryptyxis P. Fischer, 1883
Gittenedouardia Bank & Menkhorst, 2008^[5]
Hoqia Neubert, 2005^[6]
Limicena Connolly, 1925^[7]
Microscintilla Neubert, 2002^[8]
Nesiocerastus Van Mol & Coppois, 1980
Nesobia Ancey, 1887
Pachnodus E. von Martens, 1860
Paracerastus Thiele, 1934
Passamaella Clessin, 1878^[9]
Pleurorhachis Connolly, 1938
Polychordia Connolly, 1941
Rachis Albers, 1850^[10]
Rhachidina Thiele, 1911^[11]
Rhachistia Connolly, 1925^[7]
Soqena Neubert, 2005^[6]
Zebrinops Thiele, 1931

^ Wenz, W. (1923). Fossilium Catalogus I: Animalia. Gastropoda extramarina tertiaria. Berlin: W. Junk.

^ ^a ^b MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Cerastidae Wenz, 1923. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=738097 on 2020-12-31

^ Nevill, G. (1878). Hand List of Mollusca in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. Part I. Gastropoda. Pulmonata and Prosobranchia-Neurobranchia. Calcutta: Trustees of the Indian Museum.

^ Solem, A. (1964). Aminopina, an Australian enid land snail. The Veliger, 6(3), 115–120.

^ Bank, R. A. & Menkhorst, H. P. (2008). Notes on the nomenclature of some land- and freshwater molluscs of the Seychelles, with consequences for taxa from Africa, Madagascar, India, the Philippines, Jamaica, and Europe. Basteria, 72, 93–110.

^ ^a ^b Neubert, E. (2005). The continental malacofauna of Arabia and adjacent areas. IV. Revision of the family Cerastidae in the Soqotran Archipelago. I. The genus Passamaella Pfeiffer, 1877, with a description of a new genus and species (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Cerastidae). Archiv für Molluskenkunde, 134(1), 1–21.

^ ^a ^b Connolly, M. (1925). The non-marine Mollusca of Portuguese East Africa. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa, 12, 105–220.

^ Neubert, E. (2002). The continental malacofauna of Arabia and adjacent areas. I. Terrestrial molluscs of Samha and Darsa Islands (al-Ikhwan), Socotra Archipelago, Yemen. Fauna of Arabia, 19, 245–259.

^ Clessin, S. (1878). Aus meiner Novitäten-Mappe. Malakozoologische Blätter, 25, 122–129.

^ Albers, J. C. (1850). Die Heliceen, nach natürlicher Verwandtschaft systematisch geordnet. Berlin: Th. Chr. Fr. Enslin.

^ Thiele, J. (1911). Mollusken der Deutschen Zentralafrika-Expedition. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Zentral-Afrika-Expedition 1907–1908 Unter Führung Adolf Friedrichs, Herzogs zu Mecklenburg, 3, 175–214.

^ Mordan, P. B. (1992). The morphology and phylogeny of the Cerastuinae (Pulmonata: Pupilloidea). Bulletin of the British Museum, Natural History, Zoology, 58, 1–20.

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