Buccinoidea
| Buccinoidea | |
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| A shell of Penion maximus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: |
Buccinoidea Rafinesque, 1815 |
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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). It had been placed within the infraorder Neogastropoda according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Ponder & Lindberg, 1997).
These families are within Buccinoidea in the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005):
Busycon contrarium, a Busyconidae
Colubraria tortuosa, a Colubrariidae
Columbella rustica, a Columbellidae
Fasciolaria scalarina, a Fasciolariidae
Melongena consors, a Melongenidae
Nassarius reeveanus, a Nassariidae
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