Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Vetigastropoda > Superfamily Trochoidea

Trochidae Rafinesque, 1815

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

[unassigned] Trochidae
Cantharidinae Gray, 1857
Monodontinae Gray, 1857
Stomatellinae Gray, 1840
Trochinae Rafinesque, 1815
Umboniinae H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: tolhorens sources: Backeljau, T. (1986). Lijst van de recente mariene mollusken van België [List of the recent marine molluscs of Belgium]. Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen: Brussels, Belgium. 106 pp.

French: trochidés sources: Bousfield, E.L. 1964. Coquillages des cotes canadiennes de l'Atlantique. > Musée national du Canada, Ottawa. 89 p.

Swedish: pärlemorsnäckor

Literature

basis of record	Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (2005) Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia 47(1-2): 1-397.
additional source	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.

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Citation

Gofas, S. (2014). Trochidae Rafinesque, 1815. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:443