Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Littorinimorpha > Superfamily Truncatelloidea

Tornidae Sacco, 1896 (1884)

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Family group names

*Adeorbidae*	Monterosato, 1884	synonym

Children

Cyclostremiscus Pilsbry & Olsson, 1945
Neusas Warén & Bouchet, 2001
Tornus W. Turton & Kingston, 1830

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: cirkelslakken sources: de Bruyne, R.H.; Bank, R.A.; Adema, J.P.H.M.; Perk, F.A. (1994). Nederlandse naamlijst van de weekdieren (Mollusca) van Nederland en Belgie: feestuitgave ter gelegenheid van het zestig-jarig jubileum van de Nederlandse Malacologische Vereniging [Dutch namelist of the Mollusca from the Netherlands and Belgium: festive edition at the occasion of the 60-year jubilee of the Dutch Malacological Society]. Backhuys Publishers: Leiden, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-73348-33-1. 149 pp.

Japanese: イソコハクガイ／イソマイマイ科

Literature

original description	Sacco, F. (1896). I molluschi dei terreni terziarii del Piemonte e della Liguria. Parte XXI. (Naricidae, Modulidae, Phasianellidae, Turbinidae, Trochidae, Delphinulidae, Cyclostrematidae, Tornidae). Carlo Clausen, Torino, 64 pp., 4 pl.
basis of record	Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia. 47 (1-2): 1-397. [20 July].
additional source	Bieler, R. & Mikkelsen, P. M. (1988). Anatomy and reproductive biology of two Western Atlantic species of Vitrinellidae, with a case of protandrous hermaphroditism in the Rissoacea. The Nautilus. 102(1): 1-29, figs. 1-68.
additional source	Rubio, F.; Fernández-Garcés, R.; Rolán, E. (2011). The family Tornidae (Gastropoda, Rissooidea) in the Caribbean and neighboring areas. Iberus. 29(2), 1-230.
additional source	Rolán E. & Rubio F. (2002). The family Tornidae (Gastropoda, Rissooidea) in the East Atlantic. Reseñas Malacologicas. 13 (Suplemento), 98 pp. Sociedad Española de Malacología.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Tornidae Sacco, 1896 (1884). 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:124