See text Scaliolidae, common name scaliolids,[1] is a family of small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs or micromollusks in the superfamily Cerithioidea, the ceriths and their allies.
[2] Sand grains agglutinate to the teleoconch in the type genus Scaliola.
[3] According to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005) the family Scaliolidae has no subfamilies and has Obtortionidae Thiele, 1925 and Finellidae Thile, 1929 as its synonyms.
[2] Bandel (2006)[3] classified Scaliolidae within the superfamily Cerithioidea, but Obtortionidae at its own family level and Finellidae as a subfamily of Bittiidae.
[3] Genera within the family Scaliolidae include: