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

Muricidae Rafinesque, 1815

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Coralliophilinae Chenu, 1859
Ergalataxinae Kuroda, Habe & Oyama, 1971
Haustrinae Tan, 2003
Muricinae Rafinesque, 1815
Muricopsinae Radwin & d'Attilio, 1971
Ocenebrinae Cossmann, 1903
Pagodulinae Barco, Schiaparelli, Houart & Oliverio, 2012
Rapaninae Gray, 1853
Trophoninae Cossmann, 1903
Typhinae Cossmann, 1903

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: purperslakken; stekelhorens sources: Backeljau, T. (1986). Lijst van de recente mariene mollusken van België [List of the recent marine molluscs of Belgium]. Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen: Brussels, Belgium. 106 pp.;Hayward, P.; Nelson-Smith, A.; Shields, C. (1999). Gids van kust en strand: flora en fauna [Coast and beach guide: flora and fauna]. Tirion: Baarn, Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-327-5. 352, ill. pp.

Swedish: purpursnäckor

Literature

basis of record	Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp.
basis of record	Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (2005) Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia 47(1-2): 1-397.
additional source	Vokes E. (1964). Supraspecific groups in the subfamilies Muricinae and Tritonaliinae. Malacologia 2: 1-4

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Citation

Gofas, S.; Houart, R. (2014). Muricidae 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:148