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first author to explicitly base Margaritinae on
Margantes, rather than Margarita Leach, 1819.
Under Art. 55.3, the case should be referred
to the Commission to remove homonymy; as
neither Margaritidae Blainville nor Margaritinae
Stoliczka is in current use, we think they
should be suppressed, leaving Margaritinae
Thiele valid. -ini, McLean (1982: 11).
Marginellidae Fleming, 1828 [March]
Reference: A history of British animals: 328,
335
Type genus: Marginella Lamarck, 1799
Remarks: Original spelling Marginelladae.
-inae, Swainson (1840: 99); -oidea, Starobogatov
(1 970b: 44); -ini, G. A. Coovert & H.
K. Coovert(1995:94).
Marginelloninae Coan, 1965 [1 January]
Reference: The Veliger, 7(3): 186
Type genus: Marginellona Martens, 1904
Marianinidae Odhner, 1968
Reference: [in Franc] Traité de zoologie, 5(3):
874
Type genus: Marianina Pruvot-Fol, 1931
Marpessinae Wenz, 1923 [5 June]
Reference: Fossilium catalogas, I, Pars 20:
757
Type genus: Marpessa Gray, 1840
Remarks: See Cochlodininae.
Marseniidae Leach, 1847 [October]
Reference: [in Gray, ed.] Annals and Magazine
of Natural History, 20: 268
Type genus: Marsenia Oken, 1823
Remarks: Original spelling Marseniadae.
Marsenininae Odhner, 1913 [25 July]
Reference: Kungliga Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens
Handllngar, 50(5): 9
Type genus: Marsenina Gray, 1850
Marseniopsidae Bändel, 1993 [December]
Reference: Scripta Geológica, Special Issue
2:38
Type genus: Marseniopsis Bergh, 1886
Remarks: Not available: no diagnosis.
Martensamnicolinae Izzatullaev, Sitnikova &
Starobogatov, 1985 [after 11 September]
Reference: Biulleten' Moskovskogo Obshchestva
Ispytatelei Prirody, Otdel Biologicheskii,
new ser., 90(5): 53
Type genus: Martensamnicola Izzatullaev, Sitnikova
& Starobogatov, 1985
NOMENCLÁTOR OF GASTROPOD FAMILIES 105
Mastigophallini Schileyko, 1991 [31 August]
Reference: Archiv fijr Molluskenkunde, 120(4-
6): 225
Type genus: Mastigophallus Hesse, 1918
Mastoniinae Kosuge, 1966 [31 August]
Reference: Malacologia, 4(2): 315
Type genus: Mastonia Hinds, 1843
Mathildidae Dall, 1889 [June]
Reference: Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative
Zoology, 18: 23, 266
Type genus: -[Mathilda Semper, 1865
Remarks: Original spelling Mathildiidae. Introduced
independently by Sacco (1892: 27).
-oidea, Golikov & Starobogatov (1968: 7).
Maturifusidae Gründel, 2001
Reference: Berliner Geowissenschaftliche Abhandlungen,
ser. E, 36: 74
Type genus: -[Maturifusus Szabo, 1983
Mauritiinae Steadman & Cotton, 1946 [30
June]
Reference: Records of the South Australian
Museum, 8(3): 504, 509
Type genus: /Watyr/i/'aTroschel, 1863
Remarks: -ini, Schilder (1968: 266).
Medorini H. Nordsieck, 1997 [September]
Reference: Heldia, 4, Suppl. 5: 54
Type genus: Medora H. Adams & A. Adams,
1855
Remarks: Not available (no diagnosis) from
Brandt (1961: 14 [as Medoreae]). H. Nord-
sieck did not give a formal diagnosis but provided
a table of character states that are
diagnostic for Medorini, which satisfies Art.
13.1 of the Code.
Meekospiridae Knight, 1956 [8 March]
Reference: Journal of the Washington Academy
of Sciences, 46(2): 42
Type genus: -[Meekospira Ulrich [in Ulrich &
Scofield], 1897
Remarks: No diagnosis. First diagnosed by
Knight, Batten & Yochelson (in Moore, 1 960:
321). -inae, Nützel, herein.
Megalobulimidae Leme, 1973
Reference: Arqulvos de Zoología, 23(5): 333
Type genus: Megalobulimus K. Miller, 1878
Remarks: -inae, Hausdorf & Bouchet, herein.
Megalomastomatinae W. Blanford, 1864 [June]
Reference: The Annals and Magazine of Natural
History, ser. 3, 13: 465