Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Vetigastropoda > Order Trochida > Superfamily Trochoidea > Family Trochidae

Cantharidinae J. E. Gray, 1857

Rank: Subfamily
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Subfamily group names

*Gibbulinae*	Stoliczka, 1868	synonym

Children

Cantharidus Montfort, 1810
Clelandella Winckworth, 1932
Gibbula Risso, 1826
Jujubinus Monterosato, 1884
Oxystele R. A. Philippi, 1847
Phorculus Cossmann, 1888
Phorcus Risso, 1826
Steromphala J. E. Gray, 1847

Literature

original description	Gray, J. E. (1857). Guide to the systematic distribution of Mollusca in the British Museum. Part I. [Gastropoda]. British Museum, London, xii + 230 pp. [9 May; Preface dated 10 Dec. 1856].
basis of record	Williams, S. T.; Donald, K. M.; Spencer, H. G.; Nakano, T. (2010). Molecular systematics of the marine gastropod families Trochidae and Calliostomatidae (Mollusca: Superfamily Trochoidea). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 54: 783-809.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Cantharidinae J. E. Gray, 1857. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:382171