Caecidae

Caecidae
	Caecum glabrum
	Juvenile showing protoconch
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Truncatelloidea
Family:	Caecidae; Gray, 1850
Genera
	See text

Caecidae is a taxonomic family of minute sea snails or micromolluscs, marine gastropod molluscs in the order Littorinimorpha.^[1]

Habitat

These minute tubular shells can be found living in marine sediment, or among algae or sponges, in warm and temperate seas.

Shell description

The shells in this family are unusual in that the adult shell is a curving tube. In the subfamily Caecinae the protoconch is lost, and the tube is sealed with a permanent calcareous plug at one end. In the subfamilies Ctiloceratinae and Strebloceratinae the protoconch is retained. At the other end, the tube is sealed by a circular operculum. The spiral part is almost always lost when outgrowing the juvenile stage. The color of the shell is white to pale yellow.

Taxonomy

This family contains three subfamilies:

Caecinae Gray, 1850
Ctiloceratinae Iredale & Laseron, 1957
Strebloceratinae Bandel, 1996

Genera

Caecum Fleming, 1813
Carinocera Iredale & Laseron, 1957
Ctiloceras R. B. Watson, 1886
Elephantanellum Bartsch, 1920
Elephantulum Carpenter, 1856
Enigmerces Iredale & Laseron, 1957
Fartulum Carpenter, 1857
Gladioceras Iredale & Laseron, 1957
Jayella Iredale & Laseron, 1957^[2]
Mauroceras Vannozzi, 2019
Meioceras Carpenter, 1859
Parastrophia de Folin, 1870
Ponderoceras Bandel, 1996
Pseudoparastrophia ^{[citation needed]}
Strebloceras Carpenter 1859
Torresella Iredale & Laseron, 1957
Transcopia Iredale & Laseron, 1957
Watsonia de Folin, 1880 (possibly synonymous with Parastrophia)

Genera brought into synonymy

Brochina Gray, 1857: synonym of Caecum Fleming, 1813
Brochus T. Brown, 1827: synonym of Caecum Fleming, 1813
Micranellum Bartsch 1900: synonym of Caecum Fleming, 1813
Moreletia de Folin, 1869: synonym of Parastrophia de Folin, 1869
Odontidium Philippi, 1836: synonym of Caecum Fleming, 1813
Pedumicra Iredale & Laseron, 1957: synonym of Parastrophia de Folin, 1869
Phleboceras de Folin, 1868: synonym of Strebloceras Carpenter, 1859
Pictocaecum Habe 1978: synonym of Caecum Fleming, 1813
Spirolidium O. G. Costa, 1861: synonym of Parastrophia de Folin, 1869: synonym

References

^ Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2013). Caecidae. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=126 on 2013-06-04
^ WoRMS : Jayella accessed : 18 October 2010

Folin L. de (1875) Monographie de la famille des Caecidae. Bulletin de la Société des Sciences, Lettres et Arts de Bayonne, 1: 103-131, 1 pl
Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp
Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (2005). Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia 47(1-2): 1–397
Pizzini M., Raines B. & Vannozzi A. (2013) The family Caecidae in the South-West Pacific (Gastropoda: Rissooidea). Bollettino Malacologico, 49 (suppl. 10): 1-78.
WoRMS : Caecidae; accessed : 18 October 2010
"Caecidae". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1

[WoRMS-1] Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2013). Caecidae. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=126 on 2013-06-04

[2] WoRMS : Jayella accessed : 18 October 2010

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