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Cancellariidae

{{Short description|Family of sea snails}}

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| taxon = Cancellariidae

| image = Trigonostoma milleri.JPG

| image_caption = Apertural view of Trigonostoma milleri Burch, 1949

| authority = Forbes & Hanley, 1851

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Cancellariidae, common name the nutmeg snails or nutmeg shells, are a family of small to medium-large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Neogastropoda. Some of the shells of the species in this family resemble a nutmeg seed.

Distribution

This family occurs worldwide. Many species are found in deep water.

Taxonomy

This family consists of three following subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005):

Genera

Genera in the family Cancellariidae include:[http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=13600 WoRMS : Cancellariidae; accessed 26 August 2010]

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The following genus was also accepted in 1936 by the Royal Society of New Zealand[http://rsnz.natlib.govt.nz/volume/rsnz_65/rsnz_65_00_000870.html Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand 1868-1961, Volume 65, 1936]

References

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  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20110612063354/http://www.mnhn.fr/museum/front/medias/publication/10531_z07n2a2.pdf Verhecken A. (2007). Revision of the Cancellariidae (Mollusca, Neogastropoda, Cancellarioidea) of the eastern Atlantic (40°N-40°S) and the Mediterranean. Zoosystema : 29(2): 281-364]
  • Hemmen J. (2007). Recent Cancellariidae. Wiesbaden, 428pp

External links

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  • [https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/7508/IZ_Petit_Harasewych_2005.pdf Petit, Richard E., and M. G. Harasewych. "Catalogue of the Superfamily Cancellarioidea Forbes and Hanley, 1851 (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia)." (2005)]
  • [https://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/0642/report.pdf Miocene Gastropods and Biostratigraphy of the Kern River Area, California; United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 642] {{PD-notice}}

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Category:Gastropod families

Category:Taxa named by Edward Forbes

Category:Taxa named by Sylvanus Charles Thorp Hanley

Category:Volutoidea