Haloceratidae
Encyclopedia
Haloceratidae is a family
of sea snail
s, marine
gastropod molluscs in the clade
Littorinimorpha
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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 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 molluscs in the clade
Clade
A clade is a group consisting of a species and all its descendants. In the terms of biological systematics, a clade is a single "branch" on the "tree of life". The idea that such a "natural group" of organisms should be grouped together and given a taxonomic name is central to biological...
Littorinimorpha
Littorinimorpha
Littorinimorpha is a large clade of gastropods within Hypsogastropoda consisting primarily of marine species, but also aquatic and terrestrial species as well....
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Genera
Genera within the family Haloceratidae include:- Genus Haloceras W.H. Dall, 1889
- Haloceras carinata Jeffreys, 1883
- Haloceras cingulata Verrill, 1884
- Haloceras laxa Jeffreys, 1885
- Haloceras mediocostata Dautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1896
- Haloceras tricarinata Jeffreys, 1885
- Genus Zygoceras