Conoidea
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Conoidea is a taxonomic superfamily of sophisticated predatory sea snails.
This superfamily includes the turrids, the terebras (also known as auger snails or auger shells) and the cones or cone snails. They are all marine gastropod mollusks.
This superfamily is within the gastropod suborder Hypsogastropoda.
[edit] Families
- Clavatulidae
- Conidae Rafinesque, 1815 (Cone snails)
- Drilliidae Olsson, 1964
- Pseudomelatomidae
- Speightiidae
- Strictispiridae
- Terebridae H. and A. Adams, 1854
- Turridae
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