Ringiculidae
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| Family: | Ringiculidae Philippi, 1853
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Ringiculidae are a family of minute deep water sea snails or micromolluscs, marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the order Heterostropha.
Distribution
Species in this family are found in most tropical and temperate seas.
Shell description
Ringiculid shells are small to minute, usually solid, white, ovate-globose, but with a conical spire, outer lip thickened by a varix, inner lip with two to four entering plications.
Genera in the family Ringiculidae
- Microglyphis Dall, 1902
- Ringicula Deshayes, 1838
References
- "Ringiculidae". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1