Family Rissoidae Gray 1847 (snail)

Gastropoda - Sorbeoconcha - Rissoidae

Parent taxon: Rissooidea according to Z. Kovács and G. Stein 2023

See also Allison 1955, Beesley 1998, Beu et al. 1990, Bouchet et al. 2005, Bouchet et al. 2017, Harzhauser 2002, Marquet 1997, Martin 1904, Ponder and Warén 1988, Todd 2001, Ward and Blackwelder 1987 and Wienrich 2001

Sister taxa: Adeorbidae, Barleeiidae, Bithyniidae, Cochliopidae, Cyclotropis, Emblandidae, Epigridae, Greveniella, Helicostoidae, Lithoglyphidae, Mesocochliopidae, Moitessieriidae, Palaeorissoinidae, Rissoinidae, Torniidae, Zebinidae

Subtaxa: Actonia Alvania Ampulospira luda Benthonella Boreocingula Buvignieria Folinia Hudlestoniella Lapsigyrus Manzonia Merelina Microstelma Mohrensterniinae Obtusella Ottoina Ovirissoa Powellisetia Pusillina Rissoa Rissocerithium Rissoinae Setia Simulamerelina Striatestea Thierachella Tournoueria Voorwindia Zebinostoma

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Type: Rissoa

Ecology: epifaunal grazer

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Antarctica (10 collections), Argentina (1), China (5), Costa Rica (2), Ecuador (2), France (2), French Polynesia (1), Greece (1), Greenland (11), Iceland (2), India (1), Italy (6), the Marshall Islands (3), Mayotte (1), Mexico (4), Morocco (4), the Netherlands (3), New Zealand (4), Panama (1), Poland (6), Portugal (16), South Africa (4), Spain (4), the United Kingdom (9), United States (40: Alaska, California, North Carolina, Virginia), Venezuela (1)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Ecuador (1), United States (2: California)

• Pliocene of Belgium (3), Costa Rica (2), the Dominican Republic (4), Ecuador (1), Iceland (4), Italy (14), Jamaica (6), Mexico (4), Panama (9), the United Kingdom (2), United States (3: California), Venezuela (8)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (1), the Dominican Republic (3)

• Miocene of Algeria (3), Australia (4), Austria (12), Brazil (4), Denmark (1), the Dominican Republic (2), Fiji (1), France (8), Georgia (1), Germany (25), Hungary (1), Iran (1), Italy (4), Kazakhstan (1), the Marshall Islands (11), Morocco (3), the Netherlands (1), New Zealand (6), Palau (1), Panama (3), Poland (6), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (3), Slovakia (3), Spain (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), Türkiye (2), Ukraine (3), United States (2: Florida)

• Oligocene of Belgium (5), Denmark (4), France (40), Germany (6), the Netherlands (1), United States (1: Washington)

• Eocene of Australia (1), France (18), Germany (1), India (3), New Zealand (1), Pakistan (4), the United Kingdom (10), United States (18: Alabama, California, Mississippi, Texas, Washington)

• Paleocene of Belgium (1), Denmark (5), Greenland (1), Poland (2), United States (3: California, Texas)

• Cretaceous of Austria (1), France (1), Germany (1), Madagascar (1), Poland (25), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (35: Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Tennessee, Texas)

• Jurassic of France (2), Germany (8), Italy (2), Poland (6), the Russian Federation (2), Spain (1)

• Triassic of Italy (3)

Total: 542 collections including 1006 occurrences

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