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

Xenophoridae Troschel, 1852 (1840)

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Xenophora Fischer von Waldheim, 1807

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: carrier shells; carrier snails sources: MASDEA (1997).;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: Lastträgerschnecken 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: クマサカガイ科

Literature

original description	Troschel, F. H. (1852). Bericht über die Leistungen im Gebiete in der Naturgeschichte der Mollusken während des Jahres 1851. Archiv für Naturgeschichte. 18(2): 257-307.
basis of record	Kreipl, K. & Lorenz, F. (2023). Carrier shells. Garbage collectors of the oceans. A portrait of the gastropod family Xenophoridae. Molluscan Science, volume 4. 96 pp.
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.
taxonomy source	Irwin, A. R.; Strong, E. E.; Kano, Y.; Harper, E. M.; Williams, S. T. (2021). Eight new mitogenomes clarify the phylogenetic relationships of Stromboidea within the caenogastropod phylogenetic framework. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 158: 107081.
identification resource	Kreipl K. & Alf A. (1999). Recent Xenophoridae. Conchbooks, Hackenheim > Germany. 148pp.
identification resource	Ponder, W. F. (1983). A revision of the Recent Xenophoridae of the World and of the Australian fossil species (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Australian Museum Memoir. 17: 1-126.