Muricoidea Fossil range: Cretaceous to Recent
Chicoreus palmarosae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Subkingdom:	Eumetazoa
Superphylum:	Protostomia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea Rafinesque, 1815
Families
See text.

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.

[edit] Shell description

It is hard to generalize about such a diverse group, but the shell of these snails has an oval aperture, and a noticeable siphonal canal.

[edit] Families

Families within the superfamily Muricoidea are as follows:

• Babyloniidae T. Kuroda et al., 1971
• Costellariidae McDonald, 1860
• Cystiscidae Stimpson, 1865
• Harpidae Bronn, 1840
• Marginellidae Fleming, 1828
• Mitridae Swainson, 1829
• Muricidae Rafinesque, 1815
• †Pholidotomidae Cossmann, 1896
• Pleioptygmatidae Quinn, 1989
• Strepsiduridae Cossman, 1901
• Turbinellidae Swainson, 1835
• Volutidae Rafinesque, 1815
• Volutomitridae Gray, 1854

[edit] References

This article includes a list of references or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it has insufficient inline citations. Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations where appropriate. (August 2009)

• Bouchet, Philippe & Jean-Pierre Rocroi 2005. Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families. Malacologia 47(1-2): 1-397.
• Ponder, WF & DR Lindberg 1997. Towards a phylogeny of gastropod molluscs: an analysis using morphological characters. Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 119(2): 83-265.

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