Family ERATOIDAE Gill, 1871

Museums

Regional Maps

• Eratoinae Gill, T. 1871. Arrangement of the families of mollusks. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 227: xvi + 49 pp. [9].

  Type genus:

   Erato Risso, 1826.

Introduction

Eratoidae ranked as full family after Simone (2004, 2011) based on anatomical data. There are no published molecular data that evaluate the relationships of Eratoidae and Triviidae (Bouchet et al. 2017)

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications

Eratoinae: Erato sulcifera Sowerby, 1832 [Fehse (2013, pers. comm) says that Erato sulcifera is a west Indian Ocean species, and the Australian records are most probably they are Erato nana, Erato schmeltziana or a different species.] — Sowerby, G.B. (2nd) 1832. Conchological Illustrations. Erato (in Cypraea). London : Sowerby pp. 14-16. [Fig. 45]; Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [213]

General References

Bouchet, P., Rocroi, J.P., Hausdorf, B., Kaim, A., Kano, Y., Nützel, A., Parkhaev, P., Schrödl, M. & Strong, E.E. 2017. Revised classification, nomenclator and typification of gastropod and monoplacophoran families. Malacologia 61(1-2): 1–526 [378] (note 184)

Simone, L.R. 2004. Morphology and phylogeny of the Cypraeoidea (Mollusca, Caenogastropoda). Rio de Janeiro : Papel Virtual Editora 185 pp.

Simone, L.R. 2011. Phylogeny of the Caenogastropoda (Mollusca), based on comparative morphology. Arquivos de Zoologia 42(4): 161–323

History of changes