Muricoidea
| Muricoidea Temporal range: Cretaceous to Recent | |
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| Murex pecten | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Muricoidea Rafinesque, 1815 |
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Muricoidea is a taxonomic superfamily of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Neogastropoda.[1]
This superfamily includes the murex snails, the dove snails, the harp snails, and others.
Shell description
[edit]The shell of the snails in this superfamily vary greatly in shape and degree of ornamentation. The shells have an oval aperture, and a noticeable siphonal canal.
Families
[edit]Families within the superfamily Muricoidea are as follows:
- family Babyloniidae Kuroda, Habe & Oyama, 1971 -- 2 current genera
- family Costellariidae MacDonald, 1860 -- 11 genera
- family Harpidae Bronn, 1849 -- 4 genera
- family Muricidae Rafinesque, 1815 -- 159 genera
- family Pholidotomidae Cossmann, 1896 †
- family Pleioptygmatidae Quinn, 1989 -- 1 genus
- family Strepsiduridae Cossmann, 1901 -- 1 genus
- family Turbinellidae Swainson, 1835 -- 14 genera
- family Volutomitridae Gray, 1854 -- 7 genera
References
[edit]- ↑ Bouchet, P. (2010). Muricoidea Rafinesque, 1815. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=15138 on 2016-03-21
- Bouchet, Philippe & Jean-Pierre Rocroi 2005. Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families. Malacologia 47(1-2): 1-397.
- Ponder, WF & DR Lindberg 1997. Towards a phylogeny of gastropod molluscs: an analysis using morphological characters. Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 119(2): 83-265.
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