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: Vetigastropoda
Ordo: Trochida
Superfamilia: Trochoidea
Familia: Trochidae
Subfamiliae (10): Alcyninae – Cantharidinae – Chrysostomatinae – Fossarininae – Halistylinae – Kaiparathininae – Monodontinae – Stomatellinae – Trochinae – Umboniinae
Genera Incertae sedis (3 + 3†): Callumbonella – Enida – Omphalomargarites – †Coeloconulus – †Eocalliostoma – †Falsotectus
Overview of genera (82 + 8†)
Agagus – Alcyna – Antisolarium – Austrocochlea – Bankivia – Botelloides – Broderipia – Calliotrochus – Callumbonella – Calthalotia – Camitia – Cantharidella – Cantharidoscops – Cantharidus – Charisma – Chlorodiloma – Chrysostoma – Clanculus – Clelandella – Clydonochilus – Coelotrochus – Conotalopia – Cratidentium – Diloma – Enida – Ethalia – Ethaliella – Ethminolia – Euriclanculus – Eurytrochus – Fossarina – Gibbula – Halistylus – Infundibulum – Inkaba – Isanda – Isoclanculus – Iwakawatrochus – Jujubinus – Kaiparathina – Kanekotrochus – Komaitrochus – Leiopyrga – Lirularia – Mesoclanculus – Micrelenchus – Microtis – Minopa – Monilea – Monodonta – Nanula – Notogibbula – Odontotrochus – Omphalomargarites – Oxystele – Pagodatrochus – Paraclanculus – Parminolia – Phasianotrochus – Phorcus – Pictodiloma – Priotrochus – Prothalotia – Pseudominolia – Pseudostomatella – Pseudotalopia – Pulchrastele – Roseaplagis – Rossiteria – Rubritrochus – Sericominolia – Steromphala – Stomatella – Stomatia – Stomatolina – Synaptocochlea – Thalotia – Tosatrochus – Trochus – Umbonium – Vanitrochus – Zethalia – †Coeloconulus – †Conominolia – †Eocalliostoma – †Falsotectus – †Miofractarmilla – †Pachydontella – †Paroxystele – †Phorculus
Name
Trochidae Rafinesque, 1815
References
Absalão, R.S. & A.D. Pimenta, 2005: New records and new species of Vetulonia Dall, 1913 and Brookula Iredale, 1912 from Brazil (Gastropoda: Trochidae). Veliger 47: 193–201.
Absalão, R.S. , C. Miyaji & A.D. Pimenta, 2001: The genus Brookula Iredale, 1912 (Gastropoda: Trochidae) from Brazil: description of a new species, with notes on other South American species. Zoosystema 23 (4): 675–687. Full article: [1].
Bouchet, P., & J.-P. Rocroi. 2005. Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia 47(1-2): 1–397.
Clarke, A.H., 1961: Abyssal mollusks from the South Atlantic Ocean. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 125: 345–387.
Schwabe, E. & W. Engl, 2008: Description of two new deep-water species of the genus Brookula Iredale, 1912 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Trochoidea), with a revision of the genus for the Subantarctic and Arctic Sector of the Atlantic Ocean. Zootaxa 1866: 187–204. Full article: [2]
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Trochidae in the World Register of Marine Species
The Trochidae, common name top-snails or top-shells, are a family of various sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the subclass Vetigastropoda. This family is commonly known as the top-snails because in many species the shell resembles a toy spinning top.
Taxonomy
The family Trochidae consists of the following subfamilies:[1]
Alcyninae Williams, Donald, Spencer & Nakano, 2010
Cantharidinae Gray, 1857
Carinotrochinae S.-Q. Zhang, J. Zhang & S.-P. Zhang, 2020
Chrysostomatinae Williams, Donald, Spencer & Nakano, 2010
Fossarininae Bandel, 2009
Halistylinae Keen, 1958
Kaiparathininae B. A. Marshall, 1993
Monodontinae Gray, 1857
Stomatellinae Gray, 1840
Trochinae Rafinesque, 1815
Umboniinae H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854 (1840)
Additionally, the following genera have not yet been placed in any subfamily:
Callumbonella Thiele, 1924
†Coeloconulus Nützel, 2012
Enida A. Adams, 1860
†Eocalliostoma O. Haas, 1953
†Fagnastesia S. N. Nielsen, Frassinetti & Bandel, 2004
†Falsotectus Gründel, Keupp & Lang, 2017
†Guidonia De Stefani, 1880
†Lithotrochus Conrad, 1855
†Tylotrochus Koken, 1896
Description
Shell
The length of an adult shell varies between 5 mm and 130 mm. There is also a wide variation in the shape of the shell. This goes from low auriform (ear-shaped) with a wide aperture to the long, slender conical forms of typical top shells. The shape may also be subglobose, turbinate or helicoid. Their height may vary between 3 mm and 152 mm. The shell contains only a few whorls. These have a highly variable exterior, ranging from smooth or glossy to sculptured.
The internal shell is nacreous. They have a brown, entirely corneous, circular, multispiral operculum which fits the aperture snugly. The operculum is formed of numerous gradually increasing whorls with a central nucleus. The aperture may be entire, tetragonal or rounded and has no reflected lip. The peristome is generally not continuous.
These shells are often brightly colored and adorned with darker bands.
Species of the family Trochidae differ from those in the family Turbinidae in having a corneous, never calcareous, operculum, which is always multispiral.[2]
Internal anatomy
The animal is similar in general form to the Turbinidae. The top snails are characterized by some primitive traits: a heart with two atria. They have retained only one kidney and the second osphradium has been lost in the course of evolution. The mantle cavity contains a single gill.
Along the side of the foot are three or more pairs of sensory epipodial tentacles. The head has a short, broad rostrum. The intertentacular lobes are simple or digitated, separate or united across the front, sometimes obsolete. The jaws are developed or absent.[2]
The radula is rhipidoglossate. The rhachidian teeth are always present and well-developed. The lateral teeth generally number 5 on each side, sometimes more numerous. The marginal teeth are narrow and very numerous.
Distribution and habitat
This family has a worldwide distribution in tropical, temperate and arctic waters. Members of this family are among the most common marine snails along the rocky shores of Europe. Most species in the family live either in the intertidal zone or in the shallow subtidal zone, but some live in deeper water. They are usually abundant on solid, suitable substrates, like rocky shores and reefs.[3]
Ecology
Life cycle
Species of the family Trochidae are dioecious, and the fertilization occurs externally by the release of eggs and sperm.[3] Top snail eggs are laid individually or in gelatinous egg masses in the water. Individuals may hatch as free-swimming planktonic larvae or juvenile crawlers with a short swimming stage.[3]
Feeding behavior
This family of snails consists of herbivores, grazing with their radulae on rocky surfaces, feeding on algae and vegetable detritus, and more rarely by filter-feeding, as observed in the genus Umbonium.[3]
References
Williams S.T., Donald K.M., Spencer H.G. & Nakano T. (2010) Molecular systematics of the marine gastropod families Trochidae and Calliostomatidae (Mollusca: Superfamily Trochoidea). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 54:783-809
"WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Trochidae Rafinesque, 1815". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2022-11-22.
Tryon (1889), Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
Poutiers, J. M. (1998). Gastropods in: FAO Species Identification Guide for Fishery Purposes: The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific Volume 1. Seaweeds, corals, bivalves and gastropods. Rome, FAO, 1998. page 399.
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