Barleeiidae Gray 1857

Barleeiidae (often also spelled Barleeidae) is a family of minute sea snails, micromollusks in the clade Littorinimorpha.^[1]

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. They are further characterized by a foot with sometimes a posterior mucous gland. Their olfactory organ, the osphradium is enlarged. In some species there are oesophageal pouches present. Their penis is sometimes provided with prostatic tissue. Their oviduct glands show a simple histology.^[2]

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

Genera in the family Baleeiidae include:

• Ansola Slavoschevskaya, 1975
• Barleeia Clark, 1853 - Barleysnails
• Caelatura Conrad, 1853
• Fictonoba Ponder, 1967
• Ketosia Dos Santos & Absalao, 2006^[3]
• Lirobarleeia Ponder, 1983
• Protobarleeia Ponder, 1983
• Pseudodiala Ponder, 1967
• Tropidorissoia Tomlin & Shackleford, 1915

References

• Ponder W. F. (1983). Review of the genera of the Barleeidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Rissoacea). Records of the Australian Museum 35: 231-281
• Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp.
• Gofas S. (1995). A remarkable species richness of the Barleeidae (Gastropoda: Rissoacea) in the Eastern Atlantic. The Nautilus 109(1): 14-37

Barleeiidae is een familie van weekdieren uit de klasse van de Gastropoda (slakken).

Geslachten

• Ansola Slavoschevskaya, 1975
• Barleeia W. Clark, 1853
• Caelatura Conrad, 1865
• Fictonoba Ponder, 1967
• Ketosia Dos Santos & Absalão, 2006
• Lirobarleeia Ponder, 1983
• Protobarleeia Ponder, 1983
• Pseudodiala Ponder, 1967
• Tropidorissoia Tomlin & Shackleford, 1915