Rhodopidae
Introduction '''Rhodopidae''' is a taxonomic family of sea snails, marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Murchisonelloidea.
Genera Genera include:* ''Helminthope'' Salvini-Plawen, 1991* ''Rhodope'' Koelliker, 1847;Genera brought into synonymy:* ''Sidonia'' Schulze, 1854: synonym of ''Rhodope'' Koelliker, 1847
Taxonomy Molecular work has shown that this family is a basal clade of heterobranch Mollusca. Anatomically aberrant, Rhodopidae have been shown to be related to snails of the family Murchisonellidae which all have a narrow shell with many whorls.
References
Further reading * Haszprunar, G. and G. Huber. (1990). On the central nervous system of Smeagolidae and Rhodopidae, two families questionably allied to the Gymnomorpha (Gastropoda, Euthyneura). ''Journal of Zoology'' 220: 185–199.