Diastomatidae

Diastomatidae
Diastoma costellatum (Lamarck, 1804), the type species from the Eocene of France
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Superfamily:	Cerithioidea
Family:	Diastomatidae A. E. M. Cossmann, 1894[1]
Diversity[2]
1 extant species
Synonyms[3]
Diastomidae Cossmann, 1893 Ewekoroiidae Adegoke, 1977[4]

Diastomatidae is a family of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Cerithioidea.[3]

According to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005) the family Diastomatidae has no subfamilies.

Genera

Genera in the family Diastomatidae include:

• Aneurychilus Cossmann, 1889[5]
• Diastoma Deshayes, 1850 - type genus of the family Diastomatidae, the type species of this genus is extinct[3]
  • † Diastoma acuminiense Cossmann, 1882 or Diastoma acumininense Cossmann, 1882[6]
  • † Diastoma costellatum (Lamarck, 1804)[6] - type species, from Eocene of the Paris Basin[5]
  • † Diastoma elaenia Olsson, 1929[6]
  • † Diastoma elongatum Brongniart, 1823[6]
  • † Diastoma insulaemaris Pilsbry & Harbison, 1933[6]
  • Diastoma melanioides (Reeve, 1849)[7] - it is the only extant species of this family[5]
  • † Diastoma multispiratum Cossmann, 1881[6]
  • † Diastoma roncanum (Brongniart)[5]
  • † Diastoma sameri Abbass, 1967[6]
• † Ewekoroia Adegoke, 1977 - the type species of this genus is extinct[3]
• † Keilostoma Deshayes, 1850

References

1. Cossmann A. E. M. (1894). Journal de Conchyliologie 41(4): 322.
2. Strong E. E., Colgan D. J., Healy J. M., Lydeard C., Ponder W. F. & Glaubrecht M. (2011). "Phylogeny of the gastropod superfamily Cerithioidea using morphology and molecules". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 162(1): 43-89. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00670.x.
3. 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.
4. Adegoke (1977). Bulletins of American Paleontology 71(295): 100.
5. Bandel K. (2006). "Families of the Cerithioidea and related superfamilies (Palaeo-Caenogastropoda; Mollusca) from the Triassic to the Recent characterized by protoconch morphology - including the description of new taxa". Freiberger Forschungshefte C 511: 59-138. PDF^[permanent dead link‍].
6. Diastoma. The Paleobiology Database, accessed 26 June 2011.
7. Rosenberg, G. (2010). Diastoma melanioides (Reeve, 1849). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=527561 on 2011-06-26