title: Rostellariidae
text: # Rostellariidae
  
  Rostellariidae is a family of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Littorinimorpha.
  
  ## Taxonomy
  
  ### Higher classification
  
  **Bouchet & Rocroi (2005)**
  
  This taxon is ranked at subfamily level Rostellariinae within the family Strombidae in the taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). Above this rank the superfamily Caenogastropoda contains the unranked clades Hypsogastropoda and Littorinimorpha respectively.
  
  **Morrison (2008)**
  
  Rostellariidae is ranked at family level for example by Morrison (2008).
  
  ### Genera
  
  The family consists of the following genera:
  
  * † Africoterebellum Eames, 1957
  * † Amekichilus Eames, 1957
  * † Amplogladius Cossmann, 1889
  * † Calyptraphorus Conrad, 1857
  * † Cyclomolops Gabb, 1868
  * † Cyrtulotibia Eames, 1957
  * † Dientomochilus Cossmann, 1904
  * † Digitolabrum Cossmann, 1904
  * † Ectinochilus Cossmann, 1889
  * † Eotibia B. L. Clark, 1942
  * † Mauryna de Gregorio, 1880
  * † Rimella Agassiz, 1841
  * Rimellopsis Lambiotte, 1979
  * Rostellariella Thiele, 1929
  * Strombolaria de Gregorio, 1880
  * † Sulcogladius Sacco, 1893
  * † Terebellomimus Pacaud, 2008
  * † Terebellopsis Leymerie, 1846
  * Tibia Röding, 1798 (synonyms: Gladius Mörch, 1852; Rostellaria Lamarck, 1799; Rostellum Montfort, 1810)
  * Varicospira Eames, 1952
  