Melongenidae
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| A live Melongena corona in the process of rolling over using its operculum | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Buccinoidea |
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Melongenidae Gill, 1871 (1854) |
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The Melongenidae, the crown conchs and their relatives, are a taxonomic family of large to very large marine gastropods in the clade Neogastropoda.
For a while prior to 2004, the genera Busycon and Busycotypus were placed in the Melongenidae. Then, in 2004, based on their digestive systems and on cladistic analysis by Kosyan & Kantor (2004), these two genera were moved to the family Busyconidae within the superfamily Buccinoidea.
According to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005), the Melongenidae consists of two subfamilies:
Genera in the family Melongenidae include:
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