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

Cymatiidae Iredale, 1913 (1854)

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Family group names

*Cymatiinae*	Iredale, 1913 (1854)	synonym

Children

Argobuccinum Herrmannsen, 1846
Cabestana Röding, 1798
Cymatium Röding, 1798
Gelagna Schaufuss, 1869
Gutturnium Mörch, 1852
Gyrineum Link, 1807
Halgyrineum Beu, 1998
Linatella Gray, 1857
Monoplex G. Perry, 1810
Personella Conrad, 1865
Ranularia Schumacher, 1817
Sassia Bellardi, 1873
Septa G. Perry, 1810
Turritriton Dall, 1904

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: rock whelks; tritons 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.

German: Tritonen; Tritons; Tritonschnecken

Literature

original description	Iredale, T. (1913). The generic name to be used for Murex tritonis Linne. The Nautilus. 27(4): 55-56.
basis of record	Golikov, A. N.; Kussakin, O. G. (1978). Shell-bearing gastropods of the intertidal zone of the seas of the USSR. [Голиков А.Н., Кусакин О.Г. 1978. Раковинные брюхоногие моллюски литорали морей СССР. Определители по фауне СССР, издаваемые Зоологическим институтом АН СССР, 116: 292 с.]. Opredeliteli po faune SSSR, izdavayemye Zoologicheskim Institutom AN SSSR. 116: 1-292 [In Russian].
status source	Strong E.E., Puillandre N., Beu A.G., Castelin M. & Bouchet P. (2019). Frogs and tuns and tritons – A molecular phylogeny and revised family classification of the predatory gastropod superfamily Tonnoidea (Caenogastropoda). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 130: 18-34.
taxonomy source	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.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Cymatiidae Iredale, 1913 (1854). 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:196332