Ampullinidae

Ampullinidae are a mostly extinct taxonomic family of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Caenogastropoda.^[1]

Cernina fluctuata (Sowerby, 1825)

Ampullinidae
Shell of Ampullina sp. - Oligocene from Savona (Italy)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Superfamily:	Campaniloidea
Family:	Ampullinidae Cossmann, 1918
Synonyms[1]
Ampullospiridae Cox, 1930 Gyrodinae Wenz, 1938 Globulariinae Wenz, 1941 Pseudamauridae Kowalke & Bandel, 1996

The shells of species in this family resemble those of naticids. Sea snails of this family lived from the Triassic period to the Pliocene age of the Cenozoic.

But when the extant species Cernina fluctuata is considered as a member of this family, then Ampullinidae is extant.

Taxonomy

No subfamilies in this family are recognized in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005).

The contents and synonymy of Ampullinidae have been treated by the World Register of Marine Species after Lozouet et al. (2001), Kase & Ishikawa (2003) and Bandel (2006). The position in Campaniloidea is based on anatomical data on Cernina fluctuata (Kase, 1990; Healy, pers. comm., sperm morphology), but Ampullinoidea is treated as distinct superfamily by Lozouet et al. (2001) and Bandel (2006).^[1]

Genera

Genera within the family Ampullinidae include:

• Ampullina Bowdich, 1822 - the type genus
• Amaurellina Fischer 1885
• Ampullinopsis Conrad 1865
• Ampullonatica Sacco 1890
• Cernina Gray, 1842
• Crommium Cossmann, 1888
• Globularia Swainson 1840
• Pachycrommium Woodring 1928
• Warakia Harzhauser 2007