Muricoidea

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.

Nexus externus

Categoria:Neogastropoda
Categoria:Taxa Rafinesque
Categoria:Taxa 1815