Family FASCIOLARIIDAE Gray, 1853

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• Fasciolariidae Gray, J.E. 1853. On the division of ctenobranchous gasteropodous Mollusca into larger groups and families. Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 2 11: 124–132 [127].

  Type genus:

   Fasciolaria Lamarck, 1799.
• Latiridae Iredale, T. 1929. Strange molluscs in Sydney Harbour. The Australian Zoologist 5(4): 337-352, pls 37-38 [346] [subjective synonym].

  Type genus:

   Latirus Montfort, 1810.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Kantor, Y.I., Fedosov, A.E., Kosyan, A.R., Puillandre, N., Sorokin, P.A., Kano, Y, Clark, R. & Bouchet, P. 2022. Molecular phylogeny and revised classification of the Buccinoidea (Neogastropoda). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 194: 789-857 [825]

Introduction

Arrangement of the Fasciolariidae presented here follows Snyder et al. (2012) and Couto et al. (2016)

General References

Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. 2005. Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia 47: 1–397 [255]

Couto, D.R., Bouchet, P., Kantor, Y.I., Simone, L.R.L. & Giribet, G. 2016. A multilocus molecular phylogeny of Fasciolariidae (Neogastropoda: Buccinoidea). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 99: 309-322

Harasewych, M.G. 1998. Family Fasciolariidae. pp. 832-833 in Beesley, P.L., Ross, G.J.B. & Wells, A. (eds). Mollusca: The Southern Synthesis. Fauna of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 5(Part B) pp. vi–viii, 565–1234. [832-833]

Snyder, M.A. 2003. Catalogue of the marine gastropod family Fasciolariidae. Philadelphia : Scientific Publications Department in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Special publication no. 21, pp. 1-431. [5]

Snyder, M.A., Vermeij, G.J. & Lyons, W.G. 2012. The genera and biogeography of Fasciolariinae (Gastropoda, Neogastropoda, Fasciolariidae). Basteria 76(1-3): 31-70

Vermeij, G.J. & Snyder, M.A. 2006. Shell characters and taxonomy of Latirus and related Fasciolariid groups. Journal of Molluscan Studies 72: 413-424 [414]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [67] (as subfamily of Buccinidae)

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