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Pyramidellinae

Pyramidellinae
Pyramidella maculosa - D'Orbigny.jpg
Pyramidella acus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
Family: Pyramidellidae
Subfamily: Pyramidellinae
J. E. Gray, 1840
Genera

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Diversity
14 genera

(12 genera in Pyramidellini + 2 genera in Sayellini)

Synonyms

Obeliscidae A. Adams, 1863 (inv.)
Plotiidae Focart, 1951 (inv.)


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(12 genera in Pyramidellini + 2 genera in Sayellini)

Obeliscidae A. Adams, 1863 (inv.)
Plotiidae Focart, 1951 (inv.)

Pyramidellinae is a taxonomic subfamily of minute sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.

It is one of eleven recognised subfamilies of the marine gastropod family Pyramidellidae (according to the taxonomy of Ponder & Lindberg, 1997), which are as follows: Odostomiinae, Turbonillinae, Chrysallidinae, Cingulininae, Cyclostremellinae, Sayellinae, Syrnolinae, Eulimellinae, Pyramidellinae, Odostomellinae and Tiberiinae.

In the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005), this subfamily consists of the following tribes, adding the tribe Sayellini containing only two genera Sayella and Petitella.


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