Tiberiinae

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Tiberiinae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda Subclass: Orthogastropoda Order: Heterostropha Superfamily: Pyramidelloidea Family: Pyramidellidae Subfamily: Tiberiinae
Genera
Tiberia Monterosato, 1875

Tiberiinae is a subfamily of minute parasitic sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies. The shells have many-whorled, umbilicate shells that lack both shell sculpture and the tooth/teeth that are characteristic for most other members of the family Pyramidellidae. They may, however, have slight folds on the columella.

This is one of eleven recognised subfamilies in the family Pyramidellidae according to the taxonomy of Ponder & Lindberg (1997). However, in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005), this subfamily has been downgraded to the rank of tribe Tiberiini Saurin, 1958 in the subfamily Syrnolinae Gray, 1840 .

According to Schander, Van Aartsen & Corgan (1999) the subfamily contains a single genus, Tiberia Monterosato, 1875.

[edit] Genus

• Tiberia Monterosato, 1875 (type genus)

[edit] References

• Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia 47 (1-2): 1–397. 
• Ponder, W.F. & Lindberg, D. R. (1997). "Towards a phylogeny of gastropod molluscs: an analysis using morphological characters". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 119: 88–265. 
• Saurin, E. (1958). "Pyramidellidae de Pho-Hai (Sud Viet-Nam)". Annales Faculté des Sciences Saigon 1958: 63–86, pl. 1–9. 
• Schander, C., van Aartsen, J. J., Corgan, J. C. (1999). "Families and genera of the Pyramidelloidea (Mollusca: Gastropoda)". Bollettino Malacologico 34 (9-12): 145–166.