Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order [unassigned] Caenogastropoda > Superfamily Epitonioidea

Epitoniidae Berry, 1910 (1812)

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Family group names

*Epitoniinae*	Berry, 1910 (1812)	synonym

Children

Acirsa Mörch, 1857
Acrilloscala Sacco, 1891
Alora H. Adams, 1861
Amaea H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853
Boreoscala Kobelt, 1902
Cirsotrema Mörch, 1852
Claviscala de Boury, 1909
Cycloscala Dall, 1889
Cylindriscala de Boury, 1909
Depressiscala de Boury, 1909
Epidendrium A. Gittenberger & E. Gittenberger, 2005
Epitonium Röding, 1798
Gregorioiscala Cossmann, 1912
Gyroscala De Boury, 1887
Opalia H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853
Periapta Bouchet & Warén, 1986
Punctiscala 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 sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

English-United States: staircase shells sources: Charles Hussey

Swedish: vindeltrappsnäckor

Literature

basis of record	Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp.
additional source	Boury E. (de) (1909). Catalogue des sous-genres de Scalidae. Journal de Conchyliologie, 57: 255-258
additional source	Weil, A., Brown, L. & Neville. 1999. The Wentletrap book: Guide to the Recent Epitoniidae of the world. Rome: Evolver. 245 pp.
additional source	Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (2005) Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia 47(1-2): 1-397.

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Citation

Gofas, S. (2014). Epitoniidae Berry, 1910 (1812). 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:132