Family CYMATIIDAE Iredale, 1913

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• Cymatiidae Iredale, 1913 [Established as “the family name to be used for the Tritons” on the grounds that Cymatium is the oldest genus name in the family. See discussion in Beu & Cernohorsky (1986: 242). Placed on the Official List by Opinion 1650 (ICZN 1991), with precedence from 1854, i.e. from establishment of Ranellidae Gray, 1854].

  Type genus:

   Cymatium Röding, 1798.

  Secondary source:

   Beu, A.G. & Cernohorsky, W.O. 1986. Taxonomy of gastropods of the families Ranellidae (= Cymatiidae) and Bursidae. Part 1. Adoption of Ranellidae and review of Linatella Gray, 1857. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 13: 241-266 [242]; International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1991. Opinion 1650, Cymatiinae Iredale, 1913 (1854) (Mollusca, Gastropoda) and Cymatiinae Walton in Hutchinson, 1940 (Insecta, Heteroptera): homonymy removed. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 48(3): 258–260 [258].

General References

Beu, A.G. 1998. Indo-West Pacific Ranellidae, Bursidae and Personidae. A monograph of the New Caledonian fauna, with revisions of related taxa. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 178: 1-256 [66] (monograph and revision of New Caledonian taxa)

Beu, A.G., Bouchet, P. & Tröndlé, J. 2012. Tonnoidean gastropods of French Polynesia. Molluscan Research 32(2): 61-120 [90]

Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. 2005. Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia 47: 1–397 [253]

Henning, T. & Hemmen, J. 1993. Ranellidae and Personidae of the World. Wiesbaden, Germany : V.C. Hemmen 263 pp. [37]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [242]

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