Harpidae
| Harpidae | |
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| A live individual of Harpa major | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
| Family: | Harpidae Bronn, 1849[1] |
| Genera | |
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Harpidae, common name the harp snails, is a taxonomic family of large predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks.[2]
Subfamilies and genera
This family consists of the following subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005):
Genera in the family Harpidae include:
- Harpinae
- Austroharpa Finlay, 1931
- Harpa Röding, 1798 - type genus of the family Harpidae
- † Cryptochordinae
- † Cryptochorda Mörch, 1858 - type genus of the subfamily Cryptochordinae
- Moruminae
- Morum Röding, 1798 - type genus of the subfamily Moruminae
- subfamily ?
- Eocithara P. Fischer, 1883
References
- ↑ (German) Bronn H. G.. 1849. Index Palaeontologicus: Oder Übersicht der bis jetzt bekannten fossilen Organismen, II, Abt. B, Enumerator paleontologicus. Schweizerbart, Stuttgart, 972 pp. Harpidae is on the page 469.
- ↑ Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia 47 (1-2).
- ↑ Hughes & Emerson. (1 April) 1987. The Veliger, 29(4):357.
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