Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Neogastropoda

Muricoidea Rafinesque, 1815

Rank: Superfamily
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Superfamily group names

Muricacea synonym
Volutoidea synonym

Children

Costellariidae MacDonald, 1860
Cystiscidae Stimpson, 1865
Marginellidae Fleming, 1828
Mitridae Swainson, 1829
Muricidae Rafinesque, 1815
Turbinellidae Swainson, 1835
Volutidae Rafinesque, 1815
Volutomitridae Gray, 1854

Literature

basis of record

Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (2005) Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia 47(1-2): 1-397.

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Citation

Bouchet, P. (2014). Muricoidea Rafinesque, 1815. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:15138

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine

Importance

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Last modified

2010-12-05 by Philippe Bouchet

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