Anatomidae
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Anatomidae is a family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...

 of minute sea snail
Snail
Snail is a common name applied to most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in its most general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. The word snail without any qualifier is however more often...

s, marine
Marine (ocean)
Marine is an umbrella term. As an adjective it is usually applicable to things relating to the sea or ocean, such as marine biology, marine ecology and marine geology...

 gastropod mollusks in the clade Vetigastropoda
Vetigastropoda
Vetigastropoda is a major taxonomic group of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks that form a very ancient lineage. Taxonomically Vetigastropoda are sometimes treated as an order although they are a clade in Bouchet and Rocroi, 2005....

 (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005
Taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005)
The taxonomy of the Gastropoda as it was revised by Philippe Bouchet and Jean-Pierre Rocroi is currently the most up-to-date overall system for classifying gastropod mollusks...

).

Anatomidae was raised to the rank of family in a study by Geiger & Jansen (2004). Bouchet & Rocroi
Taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005)
The taxonomy of the Gastropoda as it was revised by Philippe Bouchet and Jean-Pierre Rocroi is currently the most up-to-date overall system for classifying gastropod mollusks...

 placed it in the superfamily Scissurelloidea. This was disputed in 2008 by Yasunori Kano who does not believe that Anatomidae should be separated from Scissurellidae and actually states that it is the subfamily Anatominae. He suggests that this result was induced by contamination or mislabelling.

This family has no subfamilies.

Genera

Genera within the family Anatomidae include:
  • Anatoma
    Anatoma
    Anatoma is a genus of minute marine gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs in the family Anatomidae, found in Europe, Australia and New Zealand.-Species:The genus Anatoma includes the following species:*Anatoma aedonia...

    Woodward, 1859
  • Thieleella
    Thieleella
    Thieleella is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Scissurellidae.-Species:Species within the genus Thieleella include:* Thieleella argentinae Zelaya & Geiger, 2007* Thieleella flemingi Marshall, 2002...

    Bandel, 1998
    • Thieleella bathypacifica Geiger & McLean, 2010
    • Thieleella kelseyi (Dall, 1905)
    • Thieleella peruviana Geiger & McLean, 2010
  • Sasakiconcha
    Sasakiconcha
    Sasakiconcha is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Scissurellidae.-Species:Species within the genus Sasakiconcha include:* Sasakiconcha elegantissima Geiger, 2006...

    Geiger, 2006
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