WoRMS taxon details
Potamididae H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854
23100 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:23100)
accepted
Family
Cerithideidae Houbrick, 1988 · unaccepted
Potamidinae H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854 · unaccepted > superseded rank
Telescopiidae J. K. Allan, 1950 · unaccepted
- Genus Cerithidea Swainson, 1840
- Genus Cerithideopsis Thiele, 1929
- Genus Pirenella J. E. Gray, 1847
- Genus Telescopium Montfort, 1810
- Genus Terebralia Swainson, 1840
- Genus Theodiscella Harzhauser, Guzhov & Landau, 2025
- Genus Tympanotonos Schumacher, 1817
- Genus Vicarya d'Archiac, 1854
- Genus Aphanistylus P. Fischer, 1884 accepted as Cerithidea Swainson, 1840
- Genus Cerithideopsilla Thiele, 1929 accepted as Pirenella J. E. Gray, 1847 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Genus Djeddilia Jousseaume, 1894 accepted as Pirenella J. E. Gray, 1847 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Genus Phaenommia Mörch, 1860 accepted as Cerithidea Swainson, 1840
- Genus Tympanotomus [sic] accepted as Tympanotonos Schumacher, 1817 (misspelling by Gray, 1840)
- Genus Typhanotus accepted as Tympanotonos Schumacher, 1817 (misspelling)
marine, brackish, terrestrial
(of Potamidinae H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854) Adams, H. & Adams, A. (1853-1858). <i>The genera of Recent Mollusca; arranged according to their organization</i>. London, van Voorst. Vol. 1: xl + 484 pp.; vol. 2: 661 pp.; vol. 3: 138 pls. [Published in parts: Vol. 1: i-xl (1858), 1-256 (1853), 257-484 (1854). Vol. 2: 1-92 (1854), 93-284 (1855), 285-412 (1856), 413-540 (1857), 541-661 (1858). Vol. 3: pl. 1-32 (1853), 33-72 (1954), 73-96 (1855), 97-112 (1856), 113-128 (1857), 129-138 (1858)]. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3782650
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page(s): 1: 286 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Potamididae H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=23100 on 2026-06-22
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Potamidinae H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854) Adams, H. & Adams, A. (1853-1858). <i>The genera of Recent Mollusca; arranged according to their organization</i>. London, van Voorst. Vol. 1: xl + 484 pp.; vol. 2: 661 pp.; vol. 3: 138 pls. [Published in parts: Vol. 1: i-xl (1858), 1-256 (1853), 257-484 (1854). Vol. 2: 1-92 (1854), 93-284 (1855), 285-412 (1856), 413-540 (1857), 541-661 (1858). Vol. 3: pl. 1-32 (1853), 33-72 (1954), 73-96 (1855), 97-112 (1856), 113-128 (1857), 129-138 (1858)]. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3782650
page(s): 1: 286 [details]
original description (of Telescopiidae J. K. Allan, 1950) Allan, J. [K.]. (1950). Australian Shells. With Related Animals Living in the Sea, in Freshwater and on Land [first edition. <em>Australiana Society Publication, Georgian House, Melbourne. p. xix.</em> 1-470. [details]
original description (of Cerithideidae Houbrick, 1988) Houbrick, R. (1988). Cerithioidean phylogeny. In: Ponder, W. (ed), Prosobranch phylogeny. Proceedings of a Symposium held at the 9th International Malacological Congress, Edinburgh. <em>Malacological Review Supplement.</em> 4: 88-128.
page(s): 118 [details]
basis of record Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. <em>Malacologia.</em> 47 (1-2): 1-397. [20 July]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25127200 [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 1: 286 [details]
original description (of Telescopiidae J. K. Allan, 1950) Allan, J. [K.]. (1950). Australian Shells. With Related Animals Living in the Sea, in Freshwater and on Land [first edition. <em>Australiana Society Publication, Georgian House, Melbourne. p. xix.</em> 1-470. [details]
original description (of Cerithideidae Houbrick, 1988) Houbrick, R. (1988). Cerithioidean phylogeny. In: Ponder, W. (ed), Prosobranch phylogeny. Proceedings of a Symposium held at the 9th International Malacological Congress, Edinburgh. <em>Malacological Review Supplement.</em> 4: 88-128.
page(s): 118 [details]
basis of record Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. <em>Malacologia.</em> 47 (1-2): 1-397. [20 July]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25127200 [details] Available for editors
[request]Taxonomy
taxonomy source
Reid, D.G., Dyal, P., Lozouet, P., Glaubrecht, M. & Williams, S.T. (2008)
Mudwhelks and mangroves: the evolutionary history of an ecological
association (Gastropoda: Potamididae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
47: 680-699., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2008.01.003 [details] Available for editors [request]
[request]Other
additional source
Ozawa, T.; Köhler, F.; Reid, D. G.; Glaubrecht, M. (2009). Tethyan relicts on continental coastlines of the northwestern Pacific Ocean and Australasia: molecular phylogeny and fossil record of batillariid gastropods (Caenogastropoda, Cerithioidea). <em>Zoologica Scripta.</em> 38, 503-525., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1463-6409.2009.00390.x [details] Available for editors [request]
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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
