Nerrhenidae

Nerrhenidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Neritimorpha
Order: incertae sedis
Superfamily: †Nerrhenoidea
Bandel & Heidelberger, 2001
Family: †Nerrhenidae
Bandel & Heidelberger, 2001[1]

†Nerrhenidae is an extinct family of fossil sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs.[2] Nerrhenidae is the only family in the superfamily Nerrhenoidea.[2]

Genera

Genera within the family Nerrhenidae include:

  • Hessonia
  • Nerrhena - the type genus

References

  1. ^ Bandel K. & Heidelberger D. (2001). "The new family Nerrhenidae (Neritimorpha, Gastropoda) from the Givetian of Germany". N.Jb. Geol. Paläont. (12): 705-718; 8 figs., Stuttgart.
  2. ^ a b 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.
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