Ocenebrinae
| Ocenebrinae | |
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| A live individual of Ceratostoma foliatum, head end towards the lower left | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Subfamily: |
Ocenebrinae Cossmann, 1903 |
| Genera | |
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| Synonyms | |
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Nucellidae Salisbury, 1940 |
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Nucellidae Salisbury, 1940
Ocenebrinae is a taxonomic subfamily of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks. This subfamily is within the large family Muricidae, which are commonly known as the murex and rock snails.
In one other version of current gastropod taxonomy, three of these genera are grouped by themselves in a small subfamily called Haustrinae.
Genera within the subfamily Ocenebrinae include:
Fossil genera:
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