Pickworthiidae

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title: "Pickworthiidae" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["pickworthiidae"] description: "Family of gastropods" topic_path: "general/pickworthiidae" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickworthiidae" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Family of gastropods ::

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Pickworthiidae is a family of small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Cerithioidea.

Subfamilies

The following three subfamilies are recognized in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005):

• Subfamily Pickworthiinae Iredale, 1917 - synonym: Reynellonidae Iredale, 1917
• Subfamily Sherborniinae Iredale, 1917 - synonym: Faxiidae Ravn, 1933
• Subfamily Pelycidiinae Ponder & Hall, 1983: raised to the rank of family Pelycidiidae by Ponder W.F. & Hall S.J. (1983)

Genera

Genera in the family Pickworthiidae include:

Subfamily Pickworthiinae Iredale, 1917 (synonym: Reynellonidae)

• Ampullosansonia Kase, 1999
• Astrosansonia Le Renard & Bouchet, 2003
• Chrystella Laseron, 1957
• Clatrosansonia Sabelli & Taviani, 2003
• Cubasansonia Espinosa, Ortea & Fernandez-Garces, 2005
• Discrevinia Laseron, 1957
• Kaseilla Moolenbeek & Hoenselaar, 2010
• Mareleptopoma Moolenbeek & Faber, 1984
• Microliotia Boettger, 1902
• Reynellona Iredale, 1917
• Sansonia Jousseaume, 1892
• Sansoniella Moolenbeek, 2008
• Tinianella Kase, 1999

Subfamily Sherborniinae Iredale, 1917 (synonym: Faxiidae)

• • Sherbornia* Iredale, 1917

;Genera brought into synonymy:

• Latilabrum Kuroda & Habe, 1991: synonym of Microliotia Boettger, 1902
• Mecoliotia Hedley, 1899: synonym of Sansonia Jousseaume, 1892
• Pickworthia Iredale, 1917: synonym of Sansonia Jousseaume, 1892 ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/Sansonia_kirkpatricki_001.jpg" caption="shell of ''[[Sansonia kirkpatricki]]''"] ::

References

• Jensen, R. H. (1997). A Checklist and Bibliography of the Marine Molluscs of Bermuda. Unp. , 547 pp

References

1. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Pickworthiidae Iredale, 1917. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=224785 on 2021-06-21
2. [http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=411692 Pickworthiinae]. WoRMS.

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