Ringiculidae

Ringiculidae are a family of minute deep water sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the informal group Lower Heterobranchia.

Ringiculidae
a live Ringicula doliaris
Ringicula acuta shells
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Phylum:
Class:
Subclass:
Infraclass:
Euthyneura & subterclassis = Ringipleura
Superorder:
Ringiculimorpha
Superfamily:
Ringiculoidea

Philippi, 1853
Family:
Ringiculidae

Philippi, 1853

Ringiculidae is the only family within the superfamily Ringiculoidea.

The shells of species in this family superficially resemble minute versions of the shells of the Cassinae.

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