| Conoidea | |
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| Conus californicus | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
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Conoidea is a superfamily of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks within the suborder Hypsogastropoda.
This superfamily includes the turrids, the terebras (also known as auger snails or auger shells) and the cones or cone snails.
Families
Families within the superfamily Conoidea include:
- Clavatulidae
- Conidae Rafinesque, 1815 - cone snails
- Drilliidae Olsson, 1964
- Pseudomelatomidae
- Speightiidae
- Strictispiridae
- Terebridae H. and A. Adams, 1854
- Turridae
References
Further reading
- Tucker, John K. (12 October 2004). "Catalog of Recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (in English). Zootaxa 682: 1–1295. http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/list/list2004.html#October%202004.
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