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

Caecidae J. E. Gray, 1850

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Caecinae J. E. Gray, 1850
Ctiloceratinae Iredale & Laseron, 1957

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: buishorens 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: ミジンギリギリツツ科

Literature

original description	Gray, J. E. (1850). [text]. In: Gray, M. E., Figures of molluscous animals, selected from various authors. Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, London. Vol. 4, iv + 219 pp. (August) [Frontispiece (portrait of Mrs. Gray); pp. ii–iv (preface); 1–62 (explanation of plates 1–312 in Volumes 1–3); pp. 63–124 (systematic arrangement of figures); 127–219 (reprint of Gray 1847).
basis of record	Bouchet P., Rocroi J.P., Hausdorf B., Kaim A., Kano Y., Nützel A., Parkhaev P., Schrödl M. & Strong E.E. (2017). Revised classification, nomenclator and typification of gastropod and monoplacophoran families. Malacologia. 61(1-2): 1-526.
additional source	Kisch, B. S. (1959). La collection de Caecidae du Marquis de Folin au Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Description de Caecum fulvum (ex Folin MSS). Catalogue des espèces publiées par de Folin. Journal de Conchyliologie. 99(1): 15-42.
additional source	Pizzini, M.; Raines, B.; Vannozzi, A. (2013). The family Caecidae in the South-West Pacific (Gastropoda: Rissooidea). Bollettino Malacologico. 49(10): 1-78.
additional source	Folin L. de (1875) Monographie de la famille des Caecidae. Bulletin de la Société des Sciences, Lettres et Arts de Bayonne, 1: 103-131, 1 pl.
additional source	Egger, C.; Neusser, T. P.; Norenburg, J.; Leasi, F.; Buge, B.; Vannozzi, A.; Cunha, R. L.; Cox, C. J.; Jörger, K. M. (2020). Uncovering the shell game with barcodes: diversity of meiofaunal Caecidae snails (Truncatelloidea, Caenogastropoda) from Central America. ZooKeys. 968: 1-42.