Family CODONELLOPSIDAE Kofoid & Campbell, 1929

Syns.

Calpionellidae p.p., Colomiellidae

Lorica top-shaped, with aboral end rounded to apiculate; collar delicate but sometimes ridged, with wall of bowl thicker and reticulate or agglutinated; all species marine (neritic and eupelagic); many fossil as well as extant forms.

Calpionella Lorenz, 1902. Several species.
Calpionellites Colom, 1948. Several species.
Calpionellopsella Trejo, 1975. Single species.
Calpionellopsis Colom, 1948. Few species.
Codonellopsis Jörgensen, 1924. Very many ( > 50) species.
Colomiella Bonet, 1956. Few species.
Deflandronella Trejo, 1975 (for Deflandrella). Single species.
Laackmanniella Kofoid & Campbell, 1929. Few species.
Praecalpionellopsis Borza, 1971. Single species.
Stenosemella Jörgensen, 1924. Many species.
Stenosemellopsis Colom, 1948. Several species.
Incertae sedis:
Luminella Kofoid & Campbell, 1939. Few species.
Nomen inquirendum:
Micropoculum Dons, 1922. Few species.

[This genus (Micropoculum Dons, 1922) has been completely overlooked by tintinnine specialists. It was erected, with two species, by Dons (1922) as a new peritrich genus "near Cothurnia." But, as Kahl (1935a) judiciously pointed out, it (its loricae) was (were) probably (those of) a tintinnine; however, his suggestion, in effect, that Micropoculum should fall as a (junior) synonym of Codonellopsis Jörgensen (1924) is impossible, since the latter name is the more recent of the two. If some future taxonomic expert on the group decides that Kahl's conclusion is correct (that species of the two nominal genera are congeneric), then a petition to the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature would be in order, asking for preservation of the much better known name of the junior synonym.]