Muricoidea
| Muricoidea Temporal range: Cretaceous to Recent | |
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| Apertural view of a shell of Chicoreus palmarosae with the operculum positioned in place | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Subkingdom: | Eumetazoa |
| Superphylum: | Protostomia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade 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 chank snails, the true whelks, the dove snails, the crown conchs and busycon whelks, the spindle and tulip snails, the volutes and olives, the harp snails, the margin snails, the miters, and others.
Shell description
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
Families within the superfamily Muricoidea are as follows:
- family Babyloniidae Kuroda, Habe & Oyama, 1971 -- 2 current genera
- family Costellariidae MacDonald, 1860 -- 11 genera
- family Cystiscidae Stimpson, 1865 -- 15 genera
- family Harpidae Bronn, 1849 -- 4 genera
- family Marginellidae Fleming, 1828 -- 30 genera
- family Mitridae Swainson, 1829 -- 19 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 Volutidae Rafinesque, 1815 -- 49 genera
- family Volutomitridae Gray, 1854 -- 7 genera
- Synonyms
- Columbariidae Tomlin, 1928 : synonym of Columbariinae Tomlin, 1928
- Concholepadidae Perrier, 1897 : synonym of Rapaninae Gray, 1853
- Coralliophilidae Chenu, 1859 : synonym of Coralliophilinae Chenu, 1859
- Cynodontidae MacDonald, 1860 : synonym of Vasinae H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853 (1840)
- Dipsaccinae P. Fischer, 1884 : synonym of Babyloniidae Kuroda, Habe & Oyama, 1971
- Eburninae Swainson, 1840 : synonym of Babyloniidae Kuroda, Habe & Oyama, 1971
- Latrunculinae Cossmann, 1901 : synonym of Babyloniidae Kuroda, Habe & Oyama, 1971
- Magilidae Thiele, 1925 : synonym of Coralliophilinae Chenu, 1859
- Melapiidae Kantor, 1991 : synonym of Strepsiduridae Cossmann, 1901
- Nucellidae Salisbury, 1940 : synonym of Ocenebrinae Cossmann, 1903
- Pakaurangia Finlay, 1926 : synonym of Calliotectum Dall, 1890
- Purpuridae Children, 1823 : synonym of Rapaninae Gray, 1853
- Rapidae Kuroda, 1941 : synonym of Coralliophilinae Chenu, 1859
- Thaididae Jousseaume, 1888 : synonym of Rapaninae Gray, 1853
- Vasidae H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853 : synonym of Turbinellidae Swainson, 1835
- Xancidae Pilsbry, 1922 : synonym of Turbinellidae Swainson, 1835
References
- ↑ 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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