Melongenidae | |
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A live Melongena corona in the process of rolling over using its operculum | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Buccinoidea |
Family: | Melongenidae Gill, 1871 (1854) |
Type species | |
Gill, 1871 (1854) | |
Synonyms | |
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The Melongenidae, the crown conchs and their relatives, are a taxonomic family of large to very large marine gastropods in the superfamily Buccinoidea. [1]
For a while prior to 2004, the genera Busycon and Busycotypus were placed in the Melongenidae. [2] Then, in 2004, based on their digestive systems and on cladistic analysis by Kosyan & Kantor (2004), [2] 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 in the family Melongenidae include: [3]
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