Buccinoidea Explained
Buccinoidea is a taxonomic superfamily of very small to large predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks.
This superfamily is in the clade Neogastropoda according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). It had been placed within the infraorder Neogastropoda according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Ponder & Lindberg, 1997).
Families
These families are within Buccinoidea in the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005):
- Austrosiphonidae Cotton & Godfrey, 1938
- Belomitridae Kantor, Puillandre, Rivasseau & Bouchet, 2012
- Buccinanopsidae Galindo, Puillandre, Lozouet & Bouchet, 2016
- Buccinidae Rafinesque, 1815
- Busyconidae Wade, 1917 (1867)
- Chauvetiidae Kantor, Fedosov, Kosyan, Puillandre, Sorokin, Kano, R. Clark & Bouchet, 2022[1]
- Colubrariidae Dall, 1904
- Columbellidae Swainson, 1840
- Cominellidae Gray, 1857
- Dolicholatiridae Kantor, Fedosov, Kosyan, Puillandre, Sorokin, Kano, R. Clark & Bouchet, 2022[1]
- † Echinofulguridae Petuch, 1994
- Eosiphonidae Kantor, Fedosov, Kosyan, Puillandre, Sorokin, Kano, R. Clark & Bouchet, 2022[1]
- Fasciolariidae Gray, 1853
- Melongenidae Gill, 1871 (1854)
- Nassariidae Iredale, 1916 (1835)
- Pisaniidae Gray, 1857
- Prodotiidae Kantor, Fedosov, Kosyan, Puillandre, Sorokin, Kano, R. Clark & Bouchet, 2022[1]
- Prosiphonidae Powell, 1951
- Retimohniidae Kantor, Fedosov, Kosyan, Puillandre, Sorokin, Kano, R. Clark & Bouchet, 2022[1]
- Tudiclidae Cossmann, 1901
- Some genera are treated as unassigned within the superfamily Buccinoidea
- Families brought into synonymy:
- Alectrionidae Dall, 1908: synonym of Nassariinae Iredale, 1916 (1835)
- Anachidae Golikov & Starobogatov, 1972: synonym of Columbellidae Swainson, 1840
- Buccinulidae Finlay, 1928: synonym of Buccinulini Finlay, 1928
- Cominellidae: synonym of Buccinidae Rafinesque, 1815
- Nassidae Swainson, 1835: synonym of Nassariidae Iredale, 1916 (1835)
- Neptuneidae Stimpson, 1865: synonym of Buccinidae Rafinesque, 1815
- Peristerniidae Tryon, 1880: synonym of Peristerniinae Tryon, 1880
- Pyrenidae Suter, 1909: synonym of Columbellidae Swainson, 1840
Notes and References
- Kantor, Yuri I.. Fedosov, Alexander E.. Kosyan, Alisa R.. Puillandre, Nicolas. Sorokin, Pavel A.. Kano, Yasunori. Clark, Roger. Bouchet, Philippe. Molecular phylogeny and revised classification of the Buccinoidea (Neogastropoda). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 2022. 194. 3. 789–857. 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab031.
