Murchisonellidae is a taxonomic family

Family (biology)

In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...

 of sea snail

Sea snail

Sea snail is a common name for those snails that normally live in saltwater, marine gastropod molluscs....

s, marine

Marine (ocean)

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 opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Pyramidelloidea

Pyramidelloidea

Pyramidelloidea is a superfamily of mostly very small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks and micromollusks within the clade Panpulmonata.This is a voluminous taxon: above the species level close to 400 named taxa are referred to this gastropod superfamily.Pyramidelloidea has both fossil and...

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1999 taxonomy

Under the system according to Christoffer Schander

Christoffer Schander

Christoffer Schander is professor in marine biology at the University of Bergen, Norway. He is also thematic leader at the Centre of excellence in Geobiology. He was born in Sweden in 1960. His doctoral thesis , from University of Gothenburg, Sweden, treated the evolutionary relationships of the...

, Van Aartsen & Corgan (1999), there were five genera in the Ebalidae:

• Ebala
  Ebala
  Ebala is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Murchisonellidae.Members of the genus Ebala are small Ebala is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Murchisonellidae.Members of the genus Ebala are small Ebala is a genus of sea snails, marine...
  
  J. E. Gray, 1847
• Bermudaclis Bartsch, 1947
• Chesapeakella Campbell, 1993
• Ebalina Thiele, 1929
• Henrya Bartsch, 1947

2005 taxonomy

This family has no subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005

Taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005)

The taxonomy of the Gastropoda as it was revised by Philippe Bouchet and Jean-Pierre Rocroi is currently the most up-to-date overall system for classifying gastropod mollusks...

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Genera

Genera within the family Muchisonellidae include:

• Ebala
  Ebala
  Ebala is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Murchisonellidae.Members of the genus Ebala are small Ebala is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Murchisonellidae.Members of the genus Ebala are small Ebala is a genus of sea snails, marine...
  
  Gray, 1847 - synonym: Anisocycla Monterosato, 1880
• Henrya Bartsch, 1947
• Murchisonella Mörch, 1875 - type genus

Genera brought into synonymy :

• Anisocycla Monterosato, 1880 : synonym of Ebala Gray, 1847