Barleeidae

Taxobox
name = Barleeidae


image_caption = "Barleeia rubra"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo = Caenogastropoda
ordo = Neotaenioglossa
familia = Barleeidae
familia_authority = Gray, 1857
subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision = See text.

Barleeidae is a family of minute sea snails, micromollusks in the order Neotaenioglossa. These snails are very abundant and live in sublittoral and intertidal waters on rocky substrates. The shells are conical to high-spired. Their inner shell layer is chitinous.

Few malacologists are currently working on micromollusks. Since they are so small (only a few millimeters in size), they are difficult to study and classify. Therefore these small mollusks are less well known than the larger ones.

Genera

* "Amphithalamus" Carpenter, 1864
* "Barleeia" Clark, 1853 - Barleysnails
* "Caelatura" Conrad, 1853
* "Ketosia"
* "Lirobarleeia" Ponder, 1983
* "Pseudodiala" Ponder, 1967

References

* Ponder, W.F., 1983. "Review of the genera of the Barleeidae" (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Rissoacea), Records of the Australian Museum 35, 231–281

External links

* [http://sifr.jcu.edu.au/gbr/view.php?stage=taxon&taxon_no=7654 Taxonomy]