Muricoidea sunt superfamilia marinorum molluscorum praedatorum cladi Neogastropodorum classis Gastropodorum. Hac in superfamilia sunt multa animalia familiaria, inter quae genera Busycon, Melongena, Mitra, Murex, Turbinella, et familiae Buccinidae, Columbellidae, Fasciariidae, Harpidae, Marginellidae, Olividae, Volutidae.
Descriptio testae
Testa horum gastropodorum inter se forma graduque ornamenti magnopere variantur. Eis sunt apertura ovalis distinctusque canalis siphonalis.
Familiiae
Familiae intra superfamila Muricoidea sunt:
- famila Babyloniidae Kuroda, Habe & Oyama, 1971 -- 2 genera
- famila Costellariidae MacDonald, 1860 -- 11 genera
- famila Cystiscidae Stimpson, 1865 -- 15 genera
- famila Harpidae Bronn, 1849 -- 4 genera
- famila Marginellidae Fleming, 1828 -- 30 genera
- famila Mitridae Swainson, 1829 -- 19 genera
- famila Muricidae Rafinesque, 1815 -- 159 genera
- famila Pholidotomidae Cossmann, 1896 †
- famila Pleioptygmatidae Quinn, 1989 -- 1 genus
- famila Strepsiduridae Cossmann, 1901 -- 1 genus
- famila Turbinellidae Swainson, 1835 -- 14 genera
- famila Volutidae Rafinesque, 1815 -- 49 genera
- famila Volutomitridae Gray, 1854 -- 7 genera
Bibliographia
- Bouchet, Philippe, et Jean-Pierre Rocroi. 2005. Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families. Malacologia 47(1–2): 1–397.
- Ponder, W. F., et D. R. 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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