Melongenidae
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| A live Melongena corona in the process of rolling over using its operculum | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Buccinoidea |
| Family: | Melongenidae Gill, 1871 (1854) |
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Melongenidae, the crown conchs, busycon whelks and their relatives, are a taxonomic family of large to very large marine gastropods in the clade Neogastropoda.
Taxonomy
The genera Busycon and Busycotypus were previously placed in the Melongenidae.[1] However, based on their digestive systems and on cladistic analysis by Kosyan & Kantor (2004),[1] these two genera have been moved to the family Buccinidae.
According to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005) the family Melongenidae consists of two subfamilies:
- 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:[2]
- Fulguropsis Marks, 1950
- Hemifusus Swainson, 1840
- Melongena Schumacher, 1817 - crown conchs
- Pugilina Schumacher, 1817
- Taphon H. Adams & A. Adams
- Volema Röding, 1798
- Genera brought into synonymy
- Galeodes Röding, 1798 : synonym of Melongena Schumacher, 1817
- Semifusus Agassiz, 1846 : synonym of Hemifusus Swainson, 1840
- Volegalea Iredale, 1938 : synonym of Pugilina Schumacher, 1817
References
- ^ a b Kosyan A. R. & Kantor Yu. I. (2004). "Morphology, taxonomic status and relationships of Melongenidae (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda)". Ruthenica 14(1): 9-36. abstract and preview
- ^ "Melongenidae". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
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