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Buccinoidea

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Buccinoidea

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Buccinoidea is a taxonomic superfamily of very small to large predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks.

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Within Vinony's link graph, Buccinoidea is referenced by 763 other articles, and connects out to Mollusca, Animalia and ocean.

It sits within the topics Buccinoidea, Neogastropoda and Taxa named by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque.

Its subject is documented across 12 Wikipedia language editions.

Species

Superfamily

  1. PhylumMollusca
  2. ClassGastropoda
  3. OrderNeogastropoda
Habitatmarine, brackish, freshwater

Buccinoidea Rafinesque, 1815 è una superfamiglia di molluschi gasteropodi della sottoclasse Caenogastropoda.

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
19
Collections
CAS, CASG
Recorded in
Greece, Mexico, United States, Canada, Guatemala

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Buccinoidea is a taxonomic superfamily of very small to large predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks.

This superfamily is in the clade Neogastropoda according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). It had been placed within the infraorder Neogastropoda according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Ponder & Lindberg, 1997).

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