Muricoidea

Muricoidea
Temporal range: Cretaceous to Recent
Apertural view of a shell of Chicoreus palmarosae with the operculum positioned in place
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Rafinesque, 1815
Families

See text

Synonyms
  • Muricacea (suffix -oidea mandatory for a superfamily name following current ICZN art. 29.2.)
  • Volutoidea

Muricoidea is a taxonomic superfamily of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Neogastropoda. [1]

This superfamily includes the murex snails, the chank snails, the true whelks, the dove snails, the crown conchs and busycon whelks, the spindle and tulip snails, the volutes and olives, the harp snails, the margin snails, the miters, and others.

Shell description

The shell of the snails in this superfamily vary greatly in shape and degree of ornamentation. The shells have an oval aperture, and a noticeable siphonal canal.

Families

Families within the superfamily Muricoidea are as follows:

Synonyms


References

  1. ↑ Bouchet, P. (2010). Muricoidea Rafinesque, 1815. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=15138 on 2016-03-21
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.