FAMILY: SKENEIDAE Clark, 1851

The family Skeneidae comprises a polyphyletic assemblage of small, mostly white, non-nacreous snails that remain very poorly known. Our current knowledge of South African skeneid vetigastropods is extremely limited.

Some will almost certainly prove not to be vetigastropods. I include a number of potential skeneids species below, but the generic referrals are at best tentative. The taxonomy of this group has not been helped by Bartsch’s penchant for creating species names from anagrams of Africa, e.g. arifca, cifara, facira, farica, ficara and rifaca .

Cirsonella Angas, 1877 . Type species (m.): Cirsonella australis Angas, 1877 .