Vanikoridae

Vanikoridae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Vanikoroidea
Family:	Vanikoridae J. E. Gray, 1840
Genera and species
See text
Synonyms[1]
Caledoniellidae Merriidae Naricidae

Vanikoridae is a family of minute to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Vanikoroidea.^{[1] [2]}

Genera and species[]

Genera within the family Vanikoridae include:^[1]

• Habe, 1961
• Melvill, 1904
• Souverbie, 1869
• Constantia A. Adams, 1860
• † Cossmann, 1888
• Thiele, 1925
• Habe & Ando, 1987
• † Bartrum & Powell, 1928
• Larsenia Warén, 1989
• Macromphalina Cossmann, 1888
• Macromphalus S. V. Wood, 1842
• Megalomphalus Brusina, 1871
• Hedley, 1913
• Finlay, 1926
• Finlay, 1926
•  [nl] A. Adams, 1863
• Talassia Warén & Bouchet, 1988
• Iredale, 1936
• A. Adams, 1863
• Vanikoro J.R.C. Quoy & J.P. Gaimard, 1832
• Zeradina Finlay, 1926

Genera brought into synonymy

• Chonebasis Pilsbry & Olsson, 1945: synonym of Macromphalina Cossmann, 1888
• Couthouyia A. Adams, 1860: synonym of Macromphalus S.V. Wood, 1842
• Epistethe Preston, 1912: synonym of Caledoniella Souverbie, 1869
• Gyrodisca Dall, 1896: synonym of Megalomphalus Brusina, 1871
• Korovina Iredale, 1918: synonym of Vanikoro Quoy & Gaimard, 1832
• Leucotis Swainson, 1840: synonym of Vanikoro Quoy & Gaimard, 1832
• Merria Gray, 1839: synonym of Vanikoro Quoy & Gaimard, 1832
• Narica d'Orbigny, 1842: synonym of Vanikoro Quoy & Gaimard, 1832

References[]

• The Taxonomicon
• Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp