Pseudolividae is a
taxonomic
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family
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of medium-sized
sea snail
Sea snails are slow-moving marine (ocean), marine gastropod Mollusca, molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the Taxonomic classification, taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguishe ...
s,
marine gastropod
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mollusk
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s in the superfamily
Olivoidea
Olivoidea is a taxonomic superfamily of minute to medium-large predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the order Neogastropoda.MolluscaBase (2018). Olivoidea Latreille, 1825. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: htt ...
.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Pseudolividae de Gregorio, 1880. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=23107 on 2022-02-21]
The family name Pseudolividae is composed of the prefix "pseudo" and the word "Olividae" and thus means false olives. This refers to the fact that some of the species in this group, in particular a few of the ''Pseudoliva'' species, have shells that rather closely resemble those of the
Olividae, the olives.
Taxonomy
According to the
taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005) the family Pseudolividae has no subfamilies.
Genera
According to the
World Register of Marine Species
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(WoRMS), the family Pseudolividae contains the following genera :
* ''
Luizia''
Douvillé, 1933
* ''
Macron''
H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853: unassigned in the superfamily
Buccinoidea
Buccinoidea is a taxonomic superfamily of very small to large predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks.
This superfamily is in the clade Neogastropoda according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). It had been p ...
* † ''
Maralsenia''
Pacaud, 2009
* ''
Naudoliva''
Kilburn, 1989
* † ''
Popenoeum''
Squires, 1989
* ''
Pseudoliva''
Swainson, 1840
* † ''
Sulcobuccinum''
d'Orbigny, 1850
* † ''
Sulcoliva''
Vermeij, 1998
* † ''
Testallium''
Vermeij & DeVries, 1997
* ''
Triumphis''
Gray, 1857 (now assigned to
Pisaniidae
The Pisaniidae are a taxonomic family of medium-sized sea snail
Sea snails are slow-moving marine (ocean), marine gastropod Mollusca, molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the Taxonomic classifi ...
)
* ''
Zemira''
H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853
;Genera brought into synonymy:
* † ''Eburnopsis''
Tate, 1889: synonym of ''Zemira''
H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853
* ''
Fulmentum''
P. Fischer, 1884: synonym of ''
Pseudoliva''
Swainson, 1840
* † ''Gastridium''
Sowerby, 1846: synonym of † ''
Testallium''
Vermeij & DeVries, 1997 (junior homonym)
* ''Macroniscus'' Thiele, 1929: synonym of ''Macron''
H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853
* ''Mariona''
G. B. Sowerby III, 1890: synonym of ''Pseudoliva''
Swainson, 1840
* ''Sylvanocochlis''
Melvill, 1903: synonym of ''Fulmentum''
P. Fischer, 1884
References
Vermeij G. (1998). ''Generic revision of the neogastropod family Pseudolividae''. The Nautilus 111(2): 53-84* Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (2005) ''Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families''. Malacologia 47(1-2): 1–397.
Olivoidea
Gastropod families
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