{{Short description|Family of gastropods}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Argobuccinum pustulosum (MNHN-IM-2013-42200).jpeg | image_caption = ''Argobuccinum pustulosum'' | taxon = Cymatiidae | authority = Iredale, 1913 (1854)<ref name="WoRMS" /> | synonyms_ref = <ref name=WoRMS/> | synonyms = * Cymatiinae <small>Powell, 1933</small> | subdivision = see text }}
'''Cymatiidae''' is a family of large sea snails in the superfamily Tonnoidea and the order Littorinimorpha.<ref name="WoRMS">{{WRMS species|196332|Cymatiidae Iredale, 1913 (1854)||4 December 2018}}</ref> Members of this family are predators.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Ponder, Winston Frank|author2= Lindberg, David R.|author3=Ponder, Juliet Mary |title=Biology and Evolution of the Mollusca |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XNS-DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1934 |year=2019 |publisher=CRC Press|isbn=978-1-351-11564-3 |page=1934}}</ref>
==Genera== The family Cymatiidae contains the following genera:<ref name="WoRMS" /> {{div col|colwidth=20em}} * ''Argobuccinum'' Herrmannsen, 1846 * ''Austrosassia'' Finlay, 1931 * ''Austrotriton'' Cossmann, 1903 * ''Cabestana'' Röding, 1798 * ''Cymatiella'' Iredale, 1924 * ''Cymatium'' Roding, 1798 * ''Cymatona'' Iredale, 1929 * ''Distorsomina'' Beu, 1998 * ''Fusitriton'' Cossmann, 1903 * ''Gelagna'' Schauffus, 1869 * ''Gutturnium'' Mørch, 1852 * ''Gyrineum'' Link, 1807 * ''Halgyrineum'' Beu, 1998 * † ''Haurokoa'' <small>C. A. Fleming, 1955</small> * ''Linatella'' Gray, 1857 * ''Lotoria'' Emerson & Old, 1963 * ''Monoplex'' Perry, 1810 * ''Personella'' Conrad, 1865 * ''Proxicharonia'' Powell, 1938 * ''Ranularia'' Schumacher, 1817 * ''Reticutriton'' Habe & Kosuge, 1966 * ''Sassia'' Bellardi, 1873 * ''Septa'' Perry, 1810 * ''Turritriton'' Dall, 1904 {{div col end}}
==References== {{Reflist}} * [https://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/0642/report.pdf Miocene Gastropods and Biostratigraphy of the Kern River Area, California; United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 642] {{PD-notice}}
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Category:Cymatiidae Category:Taxa named by Tom Iredale
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