{{Short description|Family of gastropods}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Areneidae | image = Cinysca dunkeri 001.jpg | image_caption = ''Cinysca dunkeri'' | authority = McLean, 2012 | subdivision = ''See text'' }}
'''Areneidae''' is a family of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Vetigastropoda.<ref name="WoRMS">MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Areneidae McLean, 2012. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=413480 on 2020-05-25</ref>
Areneidae was previously not officially described as a taxon name.<ref>WoRMS (2010). ''Arene'' Adams, 1845. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=413481 on 2010-04-17</ref> Areneidae is provisionally placed within the superfamily Angarioidea according to Williams et al. (2008).<ref name="Williams 2008">Williams S. T., Karube S. & Ozawa T. (September 2008) "Molecular systematics of Vetigastropoda: Trochidae, Turbinidae and Trochoidea redefined". ''Zoologica Scripta'' '''37'''(5): 483-506. {{doi|10.1111/j.1463-6409.2008.00341.x}}</ref> In 2012 it was moved to the superfamily Trochoidea
== Genera == There are two genera within the family Areneidae:<ref name="WoRMS"/> * ''Arene'' <small>H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854</small> * ''Cinysca'' <small>Killburn, 1970</small> * † ''Mcleanarene'' <small>Pacaud, 2023</small> * † ''Pictarene'' <small>Pacaud, 2023</small> * † ''Xamaycarene'' <small>Pacaud, 2023</small>
;Synonyms: * ''Cynisca'' <small>H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854</small>: synonym of ''Cinysca'' <small>Kilburn, 1970</small> (Invalid: junior homonym of ''Cynisca'' <small>Gray, 1844</small>; ''Cinysca'' <small>Kilburn, 1970</small> is a replacement name) * ''Marevalvata'' <small>Olsson & Harbison, 1953</small>: synonym of ''Arene'' <small>H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854</small>
== References == {{Reflist}} * Bouchet P., Rocroi J.P., Hausdorf B., Kaim A., Kano Y., Nützel A., Parkhaev P., Schrödl M. & Strong E.E. (2017). Revised classification, nomenclator and typification of gastropod and monoplacophoran families. Malacologia. 61(1-2): 1-526.
==External links== * [http://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/z2012n2a11.pdf McLean J.H. (2012) New species and genera of colloniids from Indo-Pacific coral reefs, with the definition of a new subfamily Liotipomatinae n. subfam. (Turbinoidea, Colloniidae). Zoosystema 34(2): 343-376]
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Category:Areneidae Category:Taxa named by James Hamilton McLean