Buccinoidea

Superfamily of molluscs

Buccinoidea
A shell of Penion maximus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Buccinoidea
Rafinesque, 1815
Families

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Buccinoidea is a taxonomic superfamily of very small to large predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks.

This superfamily is in the clade Neogastropoda according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).[1] It had been placed within the infraorder Neogastropoda according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Ponder & Lindberg, 1997).

Families

These families are within Buccinoidea in the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005):[1]

  • Austrosiphonidae Cotton & Godfrey, 1938
  • Belomitridae Kantor, Puillandre, Rivasseau & Bouchet, 2012
  • Buccinanopsidae Galindo, Puillandre, Lozouet & Bouchet, 2016
  • Buccinidae Rafinesque, 1815
  • Busyconidae Wade, 1917 (1867)
  • Chauvetiidae Kantor, Fedosov, Kosyan, Puillandre, Sorokin, Kano, R. Clark & Bouchet, 2022[2]
  • Colubrariidae Dall, 1904
  • Columbellidae Swainson, 1840
  • Cominellidae Gray, 1857
  • Dolicholatiridae Kantor, Fedosov, Kosyan, Puillandre, Sorokin, Kano, R. Clark & Bouchet, 2022[2]
  • † Echinofulguridae Petuch, 1994
  • Eosiphonidae Kantor, Fedosov, Kosyan, Puillandre, Sorokin, Kano, R. Clark & Bouchet, 2022[2]
  • Fasciolariidae Gray, 1853
  • Melongenidae Gill, 1871 (1854)
  • Nassariidae Iredale, 1916 (1835)
  • Pisaniidae Gray, 1857
  • Prodotiidae Kantor, Fedosov, Kosyan, Puillandre, Sorokin, Kano, R. Clark & Bouchet, 2022[2]
  • Prosiphonidae Powell, 1951
  • Retimohniidae Kantor, Fedosov, Kosyan, Puillandre, Sorokin, Kano, R. Clark & Bouchet, 2022[2]
  • Tudiclidae Cossmann, 1901
  • Some genera are treated as unassigned within the superfamily Buccinoidea
Families brought into synonymy
  • Alectrionidae Dall, 1908: synonym of Nassariinae Iredale, 1916 (1835)
  • Anachidae Golikov & Starobogatov, 1972: synonym of Columbellidae Swainson, 1840
  • Buccinulidae Finlay, 1928: synonym of Buccinulini Finlay, 1928
  • Cominellidae: synonym of Buccinidae Rafinesque, 1815
  • Nassidae Swainson, 1835: synonym of Nassariidae Iredale, 1916 (1835)
  • Neptuneidae Stimpson, 1865: synonym of Buccinidae Rafinesque, 1815
  • Peristerniidae Tryon, 1880: synonym of Peristerniinae Tryon, 1880
  • Pyrenidae Suter, 1909: synonym of Columbellidae Swainson, 1840

References

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  1. ^ a b Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (2005). Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia. 47(1-2): 1-397 ISBN 3-925919-72-4
  2. ^ a b c d e Kantor, Yuri I.; Fedosov, Alexander E.; Kosyan, Alisa R.; Puillandre, Nicolas; Sorokin, Pavel A.; Kano, Yasunori; Clark, Roger; Bouchet, Philippe (2022). "Molecular phylogeny and revised classification of the Buccinoidea (Neogastropoda)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 194 (3): 789–857. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab031.
Taxon identifiers
Buccinoidea


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