Pellifroniinae Fedosov, Malcolm, Terryn, Gorson, Modica, Holford & Puillandre, 2020

Harzhauser, Mathias & Landau, Bernard M., 2023, The auger snails (Gastropoda, Conoidea, Terebridae) of the Miocene Paratethys Sea, Zootaxa 5385 (1), pp. 1-70 : 6

Subfamily Pellifroniinae Fedosov, Malcolm, Terryn, Gorson, Modica, Holford & Puillandre, 2020

Original diagnosis. “ Small to medium-sized (12–50 mm), with predominant axial sculpture. Early teleoconch whorls often with angled profile, later ones flattened or even slightly concave to convex. Sculpture of numerous close-set, evenly spaced, ribs, or forming raised nodules bordering upper or lower suture. Spiral sculpture absent or of very shallow, wide subsutural depression.” ( Fedosov et al. 2020: 363).