Basterotiidae Cossman, 1909

Basterotiidae Cossman, 1909 View in CoL

Even when this family was described, the genus Basterotia had generally been included in Sportellidae and was thus regarded as a Cyamioidea (e.g. Thiele, 1934; Chavan, 1969; Vokes, 1980; Coan, 1999). Despite that, and based on morphological, anatomical, ecological and molecular evidence, Basterotia was recently moved from Cyamioidea to Galeommatoidea ( Campbell, 2000; Giribet & Distel, 2003; Taylor et al., 2007; Goto et al., 2011; Oliver, 2013), in which they appear as a clade ( Goto et al., 2012).