Atlantidae

Atlantidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Orthogastropoda
Superorder:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Sorbeoconcha
Suborder:	Hypsogastropoda
Infraorder:	Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Carinarioidea
Family:	Atlantidae Wiegmann and Ruthe, 1832
Genera
See text.

Atlantidae is a family of gastropod molluscs in the order Sorbeoconcha.

Shells small, seldom as much as 10 mm in width, fragile, transparent, spiral, of planorbid shape, compressed into a sharp peripheral flange. The animal is capable of retracting into its shell.

Genera

• Atlanta Lesueur, 1817
• Oxygyrus Benson, 1835
• Protatlanta Tesch, 1908

References

• "Atlantidae". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Powell A W B, New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1