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Melongenidae

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Scientific name
  
Melongenidae

Rank
  
Family

Superfamily
  
Buccinoidea

Phylum
  
Mollusca

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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.

Contents

Melongenidae MELONGENIDAE Hemifusus cariniferus ID615687 Shell Detail

Taxonomy

Melongenidae MELONGENIDAE WARDIANA

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:

Melongenidae Melongenidae Wikipdia

  • Subfamily Melongeninae Gill, 1871 (1854) - synonyms: Cassidulidae Gray, 1854 (inv.); Galeodidae Thiele, 1925 (inv.); Volemidae Winckworth, 1945; Heligmotomidae Adegoke, 1977
  • Subfamily Echinofulgurinae Petuch, 1994

    • Genera

    Genera in the family Melongenidae include:

    Melongenidae Shell Catalogue Family MELONGENIDAE

  • Hemifusus Swainson, 1840
  • Melongena Schumacher, 1817 - crown conchs
  • Pugilina Schumacher, 1817
  • Saginafusus Wenz, 1943
  • Taphon H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853
  • Volegalea Iredale, 1938
  • Volema Röding, 1798
    • Genera brought into synonymy
  • Cassidulus Gray, 1854: synonym of Pugilina Schumacher, 1817
  • Galeodes Röding, 1798 : synonym of Melongena Schumacher, 1817
  • Semifusus Agassiz, 1846 synonym of Hemifusus Swainson, 1840

    • References

    Melongenidae Wikipedia
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