Muricoidea
| Muricoidea Temporal range: Cretaceous to Recent |
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| Apertural view of a shell of Chicoreus palmarosae with the operculum positioned in place | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
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Muricoidea Rafinesque, 1815 |
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Muricoidea is a taxonomic superfamily of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Neogastropoda.
This superfamily includes the murex snails, the chank snails, the true whelks, the dove snails, the crown conchs and busycon whelks, the spindle and tulip snails, the volutes and olives, the harp snails, the margin snails, the miters, and others.
The shell of the snails in this superfamily vary greatly in shape and degree of ornamentation. The shells have an oval aperture, and a noticeable siphonal canal.
Families within the superfamily Muricoidea are as follows:
Zemiropsis papillaris, Babyloniidae
Vexillum ornatum, Costellariidae
Persicula cingulata, Cystiscidae
Marginella glabella, Marginellidae
Turbinella pyrum, Turbinellidae
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