Newtoniellidae - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Newtoniellidae is a family of minute sea snail

Sea snail

Sea snail is a common name for those snails that normally live in saltwater, marine gastropod molluscs....

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 or micromollusk

Micromollusk

A micromollusk is a descriptive term for a shelled mollusk which is extremely small, even at full adult size. The word is usually, but not exclusively, applied to marine mollusks, although in addition, numerous species of land snails and freshwater mollusks also reach adult size at very small...

s in the superfamily Triphoroidea

Triphoroidea

The Triphoroidea is a superfamily of minute sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs or micromollusks within the informal group Ptenoglossa.-Taxonomy:Families and subfamilies within this superfamily are as follows:...

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It contains the following subfamilies :

Adelacerithiinae
- Adelacerithium Ludbrook, 1941
Ataxocerithiinae
- Ataxocerithium
  Ataxocerithium
  Ataxocerithium is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Cerithiidae.-Species:Species in the genus Ataxocerithium include:* Ataxocerithium abbreviatum * Ataxocerithium abnormale...
  
  Tate, 1894
Eumetulinae
- Eumetula
  Eumetula
  Eumetula is a genus of minte sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Cerithiopsidae. -Species:Species in the genus Eumetula include:* Eumetula aliceae * Eumetula arctica...
  
  Thiele, 1912
Laeocochlidinae
- Laeocochlis Dunker & Metzger, 1875
Newtoniellinae
- Cerithiella
  Cerithiella
  Cerithiella is a genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Newtoniellidae. This genus was described by Verrill in 1882.-Species:Species in the genus Cerithiella include:* Cerithiella aethiopica Thiele, 1925...
  
  Verrill, 1882
- Granulotriforis Kosuge, 1967
- Trituba Jousseaume, 1884

Genera brought into synonymy :

Cerithiolinum Locard, 1903 : synonym of Cerithiella Verrill, 1882
Lovenella G. O. Sars, 1878 : synonym of Cerithiella Verrill, 1882
Newtonia Cossman, 1892 : synonym of Cerithiella Verrill, 1882
Newtoniella Cossman, 1893 : synonym of Cerithiella Verrill, 1882

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