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Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Spiralia
Cladus: Lophotrochozoa
Phylum: Mollusca
Classis: Gastropoda
Subclassis: Caenogastropoda
Superfamilia Incertae sedis: Cerithioidea

Familia: Diastomatidae
Genera (1 + 4†): Diastoma – †Aurelianella – †Dialopsis – †Keilostoma – †Teleostoma
Name

Diastomatidae Cossmann, 1894
References
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Diastomatidae in the World Register of Marine Species

Diastomatidae is a family of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Cerithioidea.[3]

According to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005) the family Diastomatidae has no subfamilies.
Genera

Genera in the family Diastomatidae include:

Aneurychilus Cossmann, 1889[5]
Diastoma Deshayes, 1850 - type genus of the family Diastomatidae, the type species of this genus is extinct[3]
† Diastoma acuminiense Cossmann, 1882 or Diastoma acumininense Cossmann, 1882[6]
† Diastoma costellatum (Lamarck, 1804)[6] - type species, from Eocene of the Paris Basin[5]
† Diastoma elaenia Olsson, 1929[6]
† Diastoma elongatum Brongniart, 1823[6]
† Diastoma insulaemaris Pilsbry & Harbison, 1933[6]
Diastoma melanioides (Reeve, 1849)[7] - it is the only extant species of this family[5]
† Diastoma multispiratum Cossmann, 1881[6]
† Diastoma roncanum (Brongniart)[5]
† Diastoma sameri Abbass, 1967[6]
† Ewekoroia Adegoke, 1977 - the type species of this genus is extinct[3]
† Keilostoma Deshayes, 1850

References

Cossmann A. E. M. (1894). Journal de Conchyliologie 41(4): 322.
Strong E. E., Colgan D. J., Healy J. M., Lydeard C., Ponder W. F. & Glaubrecht M. (2011). "Phylogeny of the gastropod superfamily Cerithioidea using morphology and molecules". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 162(1): 43-89. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00670.x.
Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
Adegoke (1977). Bulletins of American Paleontology 71(295): 100.
Bandel K. (2006). "Families of the Cerithioidea and related superfamilies (Palaeo-Caenogastropoda; Mollusca) from the Triassic to the Recent characterized by protoconch morphology - including the description of new taxa". Freiberger Forschungshefte C 511: 59-138. PDF[permanent dead link].
Diastoma. The Paleobiology Database, accessed 26 June 2011.
Rosenberg, G. (2010). Diastoma melanioides (Reeve, 1849). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=527561 on 2011-06-26

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