Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Littorinimorpha > Superfamily Xenophoroidea

Xenophoridae Troschel, 1852 (1840)

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Xenophora Fischer von Waldheim, 1807

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: carrier shells

Literature

basis of record	Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (2005) Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia 47(1-2): 1-397.
additional source	Linsley R.M. & Yochelson E.L. 1973. Devonian Carrier Shells (Euomphalidae) from North America and Germany. Geological Survey Professional Paper, 824: 1-26, pl. 1-6.
additional source	Manganelli G., Spadini V. & Cianfanelli S. 2003. The xenophorid gastropods of the Mediterranean Pliocene: the record of the Siena Basin. Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana, 43(3): 409-451
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). Memoir 17. The Australian Museum Sydney, Australia.

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Citation

Gofas, S. (2014). Xenophoridae Troschel, 1852 (1840). In: Hayward, B.W., Cedhagen, T., Kaminski, M., Gross, O. (2014) World Foraminifera Database. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:23144