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Skeneidae Clark 1851
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FAMILY: SKENEIDAE Clark, 1851
The family Skeneidae comprises a polyphyletic assemblage of small, mostly white, non-nacreous snails that remain very poorly known. Our current knowledge of South African skeneid vetigastropods is extremely limited.
Some will almost certainly prove not to be vetigastropods. I include a number of potential skeneids species below, but the generic referrals are at best tentative. The taxonomy of this group has not been helped by Bartsch’s penchant for creating species names from anagrams of Africa, e.g. arifca, cifara, facira, farica, ficara and rifaca.
Cirsonella Angas, 1877. Type species (m.): Cirsonella australis Angas, 1877.
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Published as part of Herbert, David G., 2015, An annotated catalogue and bibliography of the taxonomy, synonymy and distribution of the Recent Vetigastropoda of South Africa (Mollusca), pp. 1-98 in Zootaxa 4049 (1) on pages 41-42, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4049.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/245367
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- Angas, G. F. (1877) Descriptions of one genus and twenty-five species of marine shells from New South Wales. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1877, 170 - 177.