Muricoidea

Conspectus in aperturam testae Chicorei palmarosae cum operculo in loco posito

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Animalia — Mollusca

Classis : Gastropoda 
cladus Caenogastropoda
cladus Hypsogastropoda
cladus Neogastropoda 
Superfamilia : Muricoidea 
Rafinesque, 1815

   

Palaeontologia

Cretaceum ad Recens

Subdivisiones: Familiae

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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.

Testa horum gastropodorum inter se forma graduque ornamenti magnopere variantur. Eis sunt apertura ovalis distinctusque canalis siphonalis.

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

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  Zemiropsis papillaris, Babyloniidae
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  Vexillum ornatum, Costellariidae
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  Persicula cingulata, Cystiscidae
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  Harpa davidis, Harpidae
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  Marginella glabella, Marginellidae
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  Mitra stictica, Mitridae
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  Rapana venosa, Muricidae
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  Turbinella pyrum, Turbinellidae
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  Cymbiola nobilis, Volutidae

• 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.

Vide "Muricoidea" apud Vicispecies.

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