Costellariidae sometimes called the "ribbed miters" is a taxonomic family

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 minute to medium-sized predatory 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 mollusks. This family of snails is also sometimes referred to as Vexillum miters. The main family of miter shells however is Mitridae

Mitridae

Mitridae, known as mitre shells, are a taxonomic family of sea snails, widely distributed marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Neogastropoda....

, a closely related group.

Taxonomy

This family was previously sometimes known as Vexillidae.

Latiromitra

Latiromitra

Latiromitra is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Ptychatractidae.-Species:Species within the genus Latiromitra include:* Latiromitra aratiuncula * Latiromitra barthelowi...

(from family Ptychatractidae

Ptychatractidae

Ptychatractidae is a taxonomic family sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks.- Taxonomy :According to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi the family Ptychatractidae has no subfamilies.- Genera :...

) has been found to be closely related to Costellariidae in the molecular phylogeny analysis by Fedosov & Kantor (2010).

Genera

Genera within the family Costellariidae include:

• Austromitra
  Austromitra
  Austromitra is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Costellariidae.-Species:Species within the genus Austromitra include:* Austromitra analogica * Austromitra angulata...
  
  Finlay, 1927
• Costellaria
  Costellaria
  Costellaria is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Costellariidae.-Species:Species within the genus Costellaria include:* Costellaria obeliscus : synonym of Vexillum obeliscus...
  
  Swainson, 1840
• Mitromica
  Mitromica
  Mitromica is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Costellariidae.-Species:Species within the genus Mitromica include:* Mitromica africana...
  
  S. S. Berry, 1958
• Nodicostellaria Petuch, 1987
• Pusia
  Pusia
  Pusia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Costellariidae.The genus name Pusia has become a synonym of the subgenus Vexillum Swainson, W.A., 1840 -Species:...
  
  Swainson, 1840 - It is either a distinct genus or a subgenus of Vexillum
• Thala
  Thala (gastropod)
  Thala is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Costellariidae.-Species:Species within the genus Thala include:* Thala adamsi Rosenberg & Salisbury, 2003...
  
  H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853
• Thaluta
  Thaluta
  Thaluta is a genus of small sea snail, marinegastropod mollusk in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters.-Species:Species within the genus Thaluta include:* Thaluta maxmarrowi* Thaluta takenoko...
  
  Rosenberg & Callomon, 2003
• Tosapusia Azuma, 1965
• Vexillum
  Vexillum (gastropod)
  Vexillum is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Costellariidae.-Species:Species within the genus Vexillum include:* Vexillum albolineatum Cossignani & Cossignani, 2007* Vexillum arabicum Turner, 2008...
  
  Röding, 1798 - synonym: Turricula Fabricius, 1823 non Schumacher, 1817
• Visaya Poppe, Guillot de Suduiraut & Tagaro, 2006
• Zierliana
  Zierliana
  Zierliana is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Costellariidae.-Species:Species within the genus Zierliana include:* Zierliana anthracina * Zierliana oleacea...
  
  Gray, 1847

synonyms:

• Pusiolina Cossmann, 1921 is a synonym of Microvoluta
  Microvoluta
  Microvoluta is a genus of very small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Volutomitridae.-Species:Species in the genus Microvoluta include:* Microvoluta australis Angas, 1877* Microvoluta blakeana...
  
  
• Turricula H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853 (not to be confounded with Turricula
  Turricula (gastropod)
  Turricula is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Clavatulidae.Clavatulidae was raised, based on cladistic analysis, from subfamily to the family level by Rosenberg in 1998. It remained regarded as a subfamily of Turridae by several malacologists...
  
  Schumacher, 1817) : synonym of Vexillum Röding, 1798