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Buccinoidea
Superfamily of molluscs / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Buccinoidea is a taxonomic superfamily of very small to large predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks.
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Buccinoidea | |
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A shell of Penion maximus | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Buccinoidea Rafinesque, 1815 |
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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).