Pseudococculinidae is a family of small sea snails or false limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Lepetelloidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).Gofas, S. (2012). Pseudococculinidae. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=23106 on 2013-02-09
This family has no subfamilies. The species in this family are hermaphroditic. They can be found from sublittoral to hadal depths.
Description The shells are small (less than 6 mm), thin and translucent. The protoconch shows a long, narrow apical fold. Its microscopic sculpture is smooth with fine threads. The asymmetrical radula shows a broad, rachidian tooth that lacks a cusp, four inner lateral teeth, a large pluricuspid tooth, and numerous marginal teeth.
Soft body: the right tentacle is generally modified into a copulatory organ.José H. Leal and M. G. Harasewych, Deepest Atlantic Molluscs: Hadal Limpets (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Cocculiniformia) from the Northern Boundary of the Caribbean Plate, Invertebrate Biology, Vol. 118, No. 2 p. 127
Genera Genera in the family Pseudococculinidae include: Amphiplica Haszprunar, 1988 Bandabyssia Moskalev, 1976 Copulabyssia Haszprunar, 1988Haszprunar (1988). Zool. Ser. 17(2): 177. Kaiparapelta B.A. Marshall, 1986 Kurilabyssia Moskalev, 1976 Mesopelex B.A. Marshall, 1986 Notocrater Finlay, 1926 Pseudococculina Schepman, 1908 Punctabyssia McLean, 1991 Tentaoculus Moskalev, 1976 Yaquinabyssia Haszprunar, 1988 Synonyms Subfamily Caymanabyssiinae B. A. Marshall, 1986 Caymanabyssiidae B. A. Marshall, 1986 (original rank) Punctolepeta Habe, 1958 Notocrater Finlay, 1926
References
Marshall B.A. (1986 ["1985"]) Recent and Tertiary Cocculinidae and Pseudococculinidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from New Zealand and New South Wales. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 12: 505–546.