TURBINOIDEA Rafinesque, 1815

Mclean, James Hamilton, 2012, New species and genera of colloniids from Indo-Pacific coral reefs, with the definition of a new subfamily Liotipomatinae n. subfam. (Turbinoidea, Colloniidae), Zoosystema 34 (2), pp. 343-376 : 345-346

Superfamily TURBINOIDEA Rafinesque, 1815

REMARKS

Hickman & McLean (1990) reviewed the classification of trochiform vetigastropods and conservatively recognised three trochoidean families: Turbinidae Rafinesque, 1815 , Trochidae Rafinesque, 1815 and Skeneidae Clark, 1851 . They divided Turbinidae into a number of subfamilies, including Angariinae Thiele, 1921 , Liotiinae Gray, 1850, Colloniinae Cossmann, 1916 , Prisogasterinae Hickman & McLean, 1990, Turbininae Rafinesque, 1815, Gabrieloniinae Hickman & McLean, 1990, Tricoliinae Woodring, 1928, and Phasianellinae Swainson, 1840. Changes to that classification have been made by current authors:

Geiger & Thacker (2005) found the Trochoidea of Hickman & McLean (1990) to be non-monophyletic on molecular evidence. Warén & Bouchet in Bouchet & Rocroi (2005: 245) separated the Turbinoidea and the Trochoidea at the superfamily level and raised the rank of many categories. A more extensive molecular study is that of Williams & Ozawa (2006), followed by Williams et al. (2008), who found two well-supported clades within the broadly defined Turbinidae , one comprising the Turbininae plus Prisogasterinae and the other including the less derived subfamilies reviewed by Hickman & McLean (1990), except for the anomaly that Liotiidae and Areneidae n. fam. (see Addendum) were not placed in the same superfamily. Moreover, the Colloniidae were assigned to the superfamily Phasianelloidea Swainson, 1840 , for which the other included families have shells of high profile and non-nacreous interiors. Acceptance of the assignment of Colloniidae to Phasianelloidea would only be possible in a parallel system of classification in which morphological evidence from the shell and radula as well as the paleontological evidence is ignored.For purposes here, the subfamilies of Hickman & McLean (1990) are treated at the family level, with the assignment to superfamily continuing to be based on all the traditional suites of morphological evidence, as well as paleontological considerations, as further elaborated by McLean & Kiel (2007).