Buccinoidea

Buccinoidea
A shell of Penion maximus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Buccinoidea Rafinesque, 1815
Families
See text

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).[1] 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):[1]

• 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[2]
• Colubrariidae Dall, 1904
• Columbellidae Swainson, 1840
• Cominellidae Gray, 1857
• Dolicholatiridae Kantor, Fedosov, Kosyan, Puillandre, Sorokin, Kano, R. Clark & Bouchet, 2022[2]
• † Echinofulguridae Petuch, 1994
• Eosiphonidae Kantor, Fedosov, Kosyan, Puillandre, Sorokin, Kano, R. Clark & Bouchet, 2022[2]
• 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[2]
• Prosiphonidae Powell, 1951
• Retimohniidae Kantor, Fedosov, Kosyan, Puillandre, Sorokin, Kano, R. Clark & Bouchet, 2022[2]
• 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

• 
  Busycon contrarium, a Busyconidae
• 
  Colubraria tortuosa, a Colubrariidae
• 
  Columbella rustica, a Columbellidae
• 
  Fasciolaria scalarina, a Fasciolariidae
• 
  Melongena consors, a Melongenidae
• 
  Nassarius reeveanus, a Nassariidae
• 
  Phos senticosus, a Nassariidae

References

1. Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (2005). Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia. 47(1-2): 1-397 ISBN 3-925919-72-4
2. Kantor, Yuri I.; Fedosov, Alexander E.; Kosyan, Alisa R.; Puillandre, Nicolas; Sorokin, Pavel A.; Kano, Yasunori; Clark, Roger; Bouchet, Philippe (2022). "Molecular phylogeny and revised classification of the Buccinoidea (Neogastropoda)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 194 (3): 789–857. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab031.