The Skeneidae are a speciose family of minute to small marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Trochoidea.Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2013). Skeneidae. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=558146 on 2013-09-30
The former subfamily Skeneinae (in the family Turbinidae) was loosely defined. Information on the specific characters of this family are incompletely described. Recent molecular evidence suggests that a number of these genera in Skeneinae probably belong to other families altogether, so many of these assignments must be regarded as provisional. Williams noted in 2012 that "this group is in a desperate need of revision".Williams S.T. 2012. Advances in molecularsystematics of the vetigastropod family Trochoidea. Zoologica Scripta, 41: 571-595. The subfamily Skeneidae has been upgraded to the status of family Skeneidae, comprising most genera formerly in the subfamily Skeneinae. But even then, the family Skeneidae represents a polyphyletic, “skeneimorph” assemblage.Thomas Kunze, Martin Heß, Friederike Beck, Gerhard Haszprunar, Skeneimorph gastropods in Neomphalina and Vetigastropoda — A preliminary It should be pruned of many genera which would go to the superfamily Seguenzioidea according to Kano (2008) Until a researcher formally assigns them to a seguenzioid family in the literature, the database WoRMS prefers to keep them unchanged.
This family is assemblage of small to very small shells that lack a nacreous structure. The shells are white and show no color patterns.
Genera
Bruceiella Warén & Bouchet, 1993 Callodix Laseron, 1954 Callomphala A. Adams & Angas, 1864 Cirsonella Angas, 1877 - synonym: Tharsiella Bush, 1897 Dasyskenea Fasulo & Cretella, 2003 Didianema Woodring, 1928 Dikoleps Hoisaeter, 1968 Dillwynella Dall, 1889WoRMS (2009). Dillwynella. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=413477 on 2010-04-19 Fucaria Warén & Bouchet, 1993 Ganesa Jeffreys, 1883 Haplocochlias Carpenter, 1864 Iheyaspira Okutani, Sasaki & Tsuchida, 2000 Leucorhynchia Crosse, 1867 Liocarinia Laseron, 1954 Liotella Iredale, 1915 Lissomphalia Warén, 1992 Lissospira Bush, 1897 Lodderena Iredale, 1924 Lodderia Tate, 1899 Lopheliella Hoffman, van Heugten & Lavaleye, 2008 Lophocochlias Pilsbry, 1921 Mikro Warén, 1996 Munditiella Kuroda & Habe, 1954 Parisanda Laseron, 1954 Partubiola Iredale, 1936 Parviturbo Pilsbry & McGinty, 1945 Philorene Oliver, 1915 Pondorbis Bartsch, 1915 Protolira Warén & Bouchet, 1993 Pseudoliotina Cossmann, 1925 Pseudorbis Monterosato, 1884 Rotostoma Laseron, 1954 Seamountiella Rubio, Gofas & Rolán, 2019 Skenea Fleming, 1825 - type genus Skeneoides Warén, 1992 † Spinobrookula Lozouet & Maestrati, 1982 Tasmocrossea Dell, 1952 Tholostoma Laseron, 1958 Zalipais Iredale, 1915
Genera moved to other families Bathyxylophila B. A. Marshall, 1988: moved to family Larocheidae Finlay, 1927 Conradia A. Adams, 1860: moved to the family Crosseolidae Hickman, 2013 Crossea A. Adams, 1865: moved to the family Crosseolidae Hickman, 2013 Crosseola Iredale, 1924: moved to the family Crosseolidae Hickman, 2013 Genera brought into synonymy Chunula Thiele, 1925: synonym of Granigyra Dall, 1889 Crosseia P. Fischer, 1885: synonym of Crossea A. Adams, 1865 Gottoina A. Adams, 1863: synonym of Conradia A. Adams, 1860 Helisalia Laseron, 1954: synonym of Omalogyra Jeffreys, 1859 Lapidicola Egorova, 1972: synonym of Lissotesta Iredale, 1915 Porcupinia Cossmann, 1900: synonym of Cirsonella Angas, 1877 Skeneia [sic]: synonym of Skenea Fleming, 1825 Tharsiella Bush, 1897: synonym of Cirsonella Angas, 1877 Tharsis Jeffreys, 1883:synonym of Cirsonella Angas, 1877
References
Hickman, C.S. & McLean, J.H. (1990) Systematic revision and suprageneric classification of trochacean gastropods.; Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Science Series, 35, 1–169 Warén, A. (1991) New and little known skeneimorph gastropods from the Mediterranean Sea and the adjacent Atlantic Ocean. Bollettino Malacologico, 27, 149–248.
External links
Seashells of New South Wales: Family Skeneidae