Scientific name Melongenidae Rank Family | ||
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Lower classifications Melongena, Knobbed whelk, Sinistrofulgur perversum, Busycotypus canaliculatus |
The Melongenidae, the crown conchs and their relatives, are a taxonomic family of large to very large marine gastropods in the clade Neogastropoda.
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Taxonomy

For a while prior to 2004, the genera Busycon and Busycotypus were placed in the Melongenidae. Then, in 2004, based on their digestive systems and on cladistic analysis by Kosyan & Kantor (2004), these two genera were moved to the family Busyconidae within the superfamily Buccinoidea.
According to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005), the Melongenidae consists of two subfamilies:

Genera
Genera in the family Melongenidae include:

References
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