| Pyramimitridae | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Mitroidea |
| Family: | Pyramimitridae Cossmann, 1901 |
| Genera | |
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Pyramimitridae, known as mitre shells, are a taxonomic family of sea snails, widely distributed marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Mitroidea. [1]
Genera in the family Pyramimitridae include:
Conoidea is a superfamily of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks within the suborder Hypsogastropoda. This superfamily is a very large group of marine mollusks, estimated at about 340 recent valid genera and subgenera, and considered by one authority to contain 4,000 named living species.
Buccinoidea is a taxonomic superfamily of very small to large predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks.
Clavatulidae is a taxonomic family of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea. The family is not well differentiated morphologically.
Strictispiridae is a taxonomic family of small predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea, the cone snails and their allies.
Teremitra efatensis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramimitridae, the mitre snails.
Lucerapex is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Turridae, the turrids.
Drilliola is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Borsoniidae, the cone snails and their allies.
Raphitomidae is a family of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.
Petrafixia koeneni is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.
Vitjazinella is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Raphitomidae.
Mitroidea is a superfamily of Recent and fossil sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks within the order Neogastropoda.
Teremitra is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Pyramimitridae, the mitre snails.
Fusiturridae is a family of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.
Marshallenidae is a family of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.
Anentome is a genus of freshwater snails with opercula, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Anentominae of the family Nassariidae, a family, almost all of the rest of which are marine.
Hortia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Pyramimitridae, the mitre snails.
The Buccinanopsidae are a taxonomic family of large sea snails, often known as whelks in the superfamily Buccinoidea.
Vaughanites is a genus of m predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pyramimitridae.
Vaughanites superstes is a species of marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramimitridae.
Petrafixia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mangeliidae.
