Muricinae Rafinesque 1815
Authors/Creators
- 1. Research Associate, Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, rue Vautier 29, 1000 Brussels, Belgium. & Institute of Systematics, Evolution, Biodiversity (ISYEB), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN), CNRS, SU, EPHE, UA CP
- 2. Department of Biology and Biotechnologies " Charles Darwin ", Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy. & Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Lazio e della Toscana " M. Aleandri ", Rome, Italy.
- 3. Department of Biology and Biotechnologies " Charles Darwin ", Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Description
Subfamily Muricinae Rafinesque, 1815
Remarks. Recently, muricids have been typically classified into 12 subfamilies (e.g.: Houart 2018; Merle et al. 2022), integrating information from molecular phylogenetics (Barco et al. 2010, 2012) and anatomical and shell characters. However, the most recent molecular phylogenetic analysis (Russini et al. 2023), provided strong evidence to restrict the concept of the subfamily Muricinae s.s. to the clade including the type genus (Murex) and related taxa (Bolinus, Chicomurex, Chicoreus, Haustellum, Hexaplex, Muricanthus, Naquetia, Phyllonotus, Siratus, Vokesimurex), thus excluding from the subfamily the genera Timbellus, Flexopteron, Ponderia, and Pterynotus as in part already suggested by Barco et al. (2010) and Merle et al. (2011).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Rafinesque
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Order
- Neogastropoda
- Family
- Muricidae
- Taxon rank
- subFamily
- Taxonomic concept label
- Muricinae Rafinesque, 1815 sec. Houart, Russini, Fassio & Oliverio, 2025
References
- Houart, R. (2018) Historique et classification des especes actuelles de Muricidae (Neogastropoda, Muricoidea). Novapex, 19 (2), 37-66.
- Barco, A., Claremont, M., Reid, D. G., Houart, R., Bouchet, P., Williams, S. T., Cruaud, C., Couloux, A. & Oliverio, M. (2010) A molecular phylogenetic framework for the Muricidae, a diverse family of carnivorous gastropods. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 56 (3), 1025-1039. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2010.03.008
- Barco, A., Schiaparelli, S., Houart, R. & Oliverio, M. (2012) Cenozoic evolution of Muricidae (Mollusca, Neogastropoda) in the Southern Ocean, with the description of a new subfamily. Zoologica Scripta, 41 (6), 596-616. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1463-6409.2012.00554.x
- Russini, V., Fassio, G., Nocella, E., Houart, R., Barco, A., Puillandre, N., Lozouet, P., Modica, M. V. & Oliverio, M. (2023) Whelks, rock-snails, and allied: a new phylogenetic framework for the family Muricidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). The European Zoological Journal, 90 (2), 856-868. https://doi.org/10.1080/24750263.2023.2283517
- Merle, D., Garrigues, B. & Pointier, J. P. (2011) Fossil and Recent Muricidae of the World - Part Muricinae. Conchbooks, Hackenheim, 648 pp.