Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Caenogastropoda incertae sedis > Superfamily Epitonioidea

Epitoniidae S. S. Berry, 1910 (1812)

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Family group names

*Epitoniinae*	S. S. Berry, 1910 (1812)	synonym
*Janthinidae*	Lamarck, 1822	synonym
*Nystiellidae*	Clench & R. D. Turner, 1952	synonym

Children

Acirsa Mörch, 1857
Acrilla H. Adams, 1860
Acrilloscala Sacco, 1890
Alexania Strand, 1928
Alora H. Adams, 1861
Amaea H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853
Boreoscala Kobelt, 1902
Cirsotrema Mörch, 1852
Clathrus Agassiz, 1837
Claviscala de Boury, 1909
Cycloscala Dall, 1889
Cylindriscala de Boury, 1909
Eccliseogyra Dall, 1892
Epidendrium A. Gittenberger & E. Gittenberger, 2005
Epitonium Röding, 1798
Gregorioiscala Cossmann, 1912
Gyroscala de Boury, 1887
Iphitus Jeffreys, 1883
Janthina Röding, 1798
Narrimania Taviani, 1984
Opalia H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853
Opaliopsis Thiele, 1928
Papuliscala de Boury, 1911
Periapta Bouchet & Warén, 1986
Punctiscala de Boury, 1890
Turriscala de Boury, 1890

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: wenteltrapjes 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.

English: staircase shells; wentletraps sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points;Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

German: Wendeltreppen sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

Japanese: イトカケガイ科 sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.

Swedish: vindeltrappsnäckor

Literature

original description	Berry, S. S. (1910). [Review of] Report on a collection of shells from Peru, with a summary of littoral marine Mollusca of the Peruvian zoological province. By William Healey Dall, 1909, Proc. USNM, 37, pp. 147–294, pls. 20–28. The Nautilus. 23(10): 130-132.
additional source	Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia. 47 (1-2): 1-397. [20 July].
taxonomy source	Brown L.G. & Neville B.D. (2015). Catalog of the recent taxa of the families Epitoniidae and Nystiellidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) with a bibliography of the descriptive and systematic literature. Zootaxa. 3907(1): 1-188.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Epitoniidae S. S. Berry, 1910 (1812). 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:132