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Muricoidea 
AphiaID: 15138

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Neogastropoda (Order)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Superfamily
Parent Neogastropoda
Synonymised
taxa
  Muricacea (suffix -oidea mandatory for a superfamily name following current ICZN art. 29.2.)
Volutoidea
Source  basis of record: Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (2005) Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia 47(1-2): 1-397. [details]

Direct child
taxa
 Family Babyloniidae Kuroda, Habe & Oyama, 1971
Family Costellariidae MacDonald, 1860
Family Cystiscidae Stimpson, 1865
Family Harpidae Bronn, 1849
Family Marginellidae Fleming, 1828
Family Mitridae Swainson, 1829
Family Muricidae Rafinesque, 1815
Family Pleioptygmatidae Quinn, 1989
Family Strepsiduridae Cossmann, 1901
Family Turbinellidae Swainson, 1835
Family Volutidae Rafinesque, 1815
Family Volutomitridae Gray, 1854

Family Columbariidae Tomlin, 1928 accepted as Columbariinae Tomlin, 1928
Family Concholepadidae Perrier, 1897 accepted as Rapaninae Gray, 1853
Family Coralliophilidae Chenu, 1859 accepted as Coralliophilinae Chenu, 1859
Family Cynodontidae MacDonald, 1860 accepted as Vasinae H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853 (1840)
Subfamily Dipsaccinae P. Fischer, 1884 accepted as Babyloniidae Kuroda, Habe & Oyama, 1971
Subfamily Eburninae Swainson, 1840 accepted as Babyloniidae Kuroda, Habe & Oyama, 1971
Subfamily Latrunculinae Cossmann, 1901 accepted as Babyloniidae Kuroda, Habe & Oyama, 1971
Family Magilidae Thiele, 1925 accepted as Coralliophilinae Chenu, 1859
Family Melapiidae Kantor, 1991 accepted as Strepsiduridae Cossmann, 1901
Family Nucellidae Salisbury, 1940 accepted as Ocenebrinae Cossmann, 1903
Family Purpuridae Children, 1823 accepted as Rapaninae Gray, 1853
Family Rapidae Kuroda, 1941 accepted as Coralliophilinae Chenu, 1859
Family Thaididae Jousseaume, 1888 accepted as Rapaninae Gray, 1853
Family Vasidae H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853 accepted as Turbinellidae Swainson, 1835
Family Xancidae Pilsbry, 1922 accepted as Turbinellidae Swainson, 1835
Environment marine
Link To GenBank
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:15138
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  db_admin
2009-08-14 07:25:27Z  changed  db_admin
2010-12-05 08:04:31Z  checked  Bouchet, Philippe
  
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  Citation: Bouchet, P. (2013). Muricoidea. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=15138 on 2013-05-18
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