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Superfamily CYAMIOIDEA G.O. Sars, 1878


Compiler and date details

December 2010 - Peter U. Middelfart, Winston F. Ponder & Des Beechey, Australian Museum, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Introduction

Given the considerable uncertainties regarding the classification of Cyamioidea and Galeommatoidea, we maintain the traditional classification here until more comprehensive revisionary work involving sampling of additional key taxa is undertaken. Basteriotiidae is often treated as a separate family from Sportellidae in recent works, but no real justification has been offered; here the genus Basterotia is maintained in the Sportellidae. Also, molecular studies (Giribet & Distel 2003; Taylor et al. 2007; Goto et al. 2012) have Basterota included within Galeommatoidea. Gamardia was shown by Taylor et al. (2007) to be far removed from Galeommatoidea, but there are no DNA data for Cyamium or similar genera.

Placed in Leptonidina by Carter et al. 2011.

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
22-Aug-2023 BIVALVIA 22-Aug-2023 MOVED Mr Des Beechey Ingo Burghardt Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
22-Aug-2023 BIVALVIA 22-Aug-2023 MOVED Mr Des Beechey Ingo Burghardt Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
23-Oct-2014 BIVALVIA 23-Oct-2014 MODIFIED ABRS
11-Aug-2014 11-Aug-2014 MOVED
13-Dec-2013 CYAMIOIDEA 18-Dec-2013 MODIFIED Dr Winston Ponder (AM) Mr Des Beechey (AM) Dr Peter Middelfart (AM)
12-Feb-2010 (import)