Family Retusidae Thiele 1925 (snail)

Gastropoda - Opisthobranchia - Retusidae

Parent taxon: Philinoidea according to J. A. Todd 2001

See also Beesley 1998, Harzhauser and Kowalke 2002 and Wienrich and Janssen 2007

Sister taxa: Aglajidae, Cylichnidae, Gastropteridae, Philinidae, Philinoglossidae, Scaphandridae

Subtaxa: Retusa Rhizorus Sulcoretusa Volvulella

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Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Australia (4 collections), Canada (2: New Brunswick, Nunavut), Costa Rica (2), Greenland (4), Italy (1), Jamaica (1), Japan (2), Mayotte (3), the Netherlands (3), Panama (1), Poland (4), Portugal (2), South Africa (2), the United Kingdom (7), United States (14: California, Florida, Louisiana, Virginia)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Malaysia (7)

• Pliocene of Belgium (2), Costa Rica (5), Italy (1), Jamaica (3), Japan (1), Mexico (2), Panama (17), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (3: California, Florida), Vanuatu (1), Venezuela (5)

• Miocene of Algeria (1), Argentina (2), Australia (6), Austria (2), Belgium (7), Brazil (2), Costa Rica (3), Denmark (1), the Dominican Republic (5), Germany (43), Haiti (1), Hungary (1), Iran (3), Italy (4), Kazakhstan (1), the Netherlands (2), New Zealand (2), Panama (32), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (32: California, Florida, Maryland, Oregon)

• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (1: Florida)

• Oligocene of Belgium (3), France (12), United States (5: Mississippi)

• Eocene of Belgium (3), France (1), Jamaica (1), Mexico (4), Pakistan (3), Panama (3), the United Kingdom (9), United States (279: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, Washington)

• Paleocene of Argentina (1), Denmark (5), Greenland (2), United States (50: Alabama, California, Louisiana, Maryland, Texas)

• Cretaceous of Spain (1), United States (8: Alabama, California, Colorado, Georgia, Mississippi)

• Jurassic of Germany (1), Israel (3), Poland (1)

Total: 647 collections including 877 occurrences

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