Cingulinini

{{Short description|Tribe of gastropods}} {{Automatic Taxobox | image = | image_caption = | taxon = Cingulinini | authority = Saurin, 1959<ref>{{cite journal | author = Saurin, E. | year = 1959 | title = Pyramidellidae de Nha-Trang (Viet-Nam) | journal = Annales de la Faculté des Sciences de Saigon | volume = 40 | issue = | pages = 223–283 | issn = | doi = }}</ref> | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision = See text. }}

'''Cingulinini''' is a taxonomic tribe of very small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.<ref name="Bouchet 2005"/>

== Taxonomy == Cingulininae was first introduced by Saurin in 1959, and according to Schander, Van Aartsen & Corgan (1999) it comprises seven genera; ''Cingulina'', ''Cinctigua'', ''Coemansia'', ''Paracingulina'', ''Polyspirella'', ''Pseudocingulina'' and ''Puncticingulina''.<ref>{{cite journal | author = Schander, C. | author-link = Schander | author2 = van Aartsen, J. J. | author3 = Corgan, J. C.| year = 1999 | title = Families and genera of the Pyramidelloidea (Mollusca: Gastropoda) | journal = Bollettino Malacologico | volume =34 | issue = 9–12 | pages = 145–166 | issn = | doi = }}</ref>

As '''Cingulininae''' it has been one of eleven recognized subfamilies of the gastropod family Pyramidellidae (according to the taxonomy of Ponder & Lindberg, 1997),<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Ponder, W.F. |author2=Lindberg, D. R. | year = 1997 | title = Towards a phylogeny of gastropod molluscs: an analysis using morphological characters | journal = Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society | volume =119 | issue =2 | pages = 88–265 | issn = | doi =10.1111/j.1096-3642.1997.tb00137.x | doi-access =free }}</ref> the pyrams and their allies. The other 10 subfamilies are Odostomiinae, Turbonillinae, Chrysallidinae, Cyclostremellinae, Sayellinae, Syrnolinae, Eulimellinae, Pyramidellinae, Odostomellinae and Tiberiinae.

In the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005), this subfamily Cingulininae has been downgraded to the rank of tribe Cingulinini and belonging to the subfamily Turbonillinae.<ref name="Bouchet 2005">{{Bouchet 2005}}</ref>

==Genera== Genera within the subfamily Cingulininae include: * ''Cingulina'' A. Adams, 1860 - type genus * ''Cinctiuga'' Laseron, 1951 : synonym of ''Odostomia (Cinctiuga)'' Laseron, C.F., 1951 * ''Coemansia'' Briart & Cornet, 1873 * ''Paracingulina'' Nomura, 1936 * ''Polyspirella'' Carpenter in Gould, 1861 * ''Pseudocingulina'' Nomura, 1936 * ''Puncticingulina'' Nomura, 1936

==Problematic genera== The following genera are difficult to place within the group Cingulininae + Eulimellinae + Turbonillinae: * ''Atomiscala'' DeBoury, 1909 * ''Hamarilla'' Eames & Wilkins, 1957{{Citation needed|date=March 2011}} * ''Kejdonia'' (''Pseudographis'') Mifsud, 1998{{Citation needed|date=March 2011}} * ''Rissopsetia'' Dell, 1956<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.nmr-pics.nl/Pyramidellidae/album/index.html |title=Natural History Museum Rotterdam : ''Rissopsetia islandica'' |access-date=2011-11-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305001149/http://nmr-pics.nl/pyramidellidae/album/index.html |archive-date=2016-03-05 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}}

Category:Pyramidellidae