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Melongenidae
Sign in to saveThe Melongenidae, the crown conchs and their relatives, are a taxonomic family of large to very large marine gastropods in the superfamily Buccinoidea.
Species
crown shells
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderNeogastropoda
- FamilyMelongenidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 428
- With media
- 16
- Family
- Melongenidae
- Collections
- UF, YPM, CAS
- Recorded in
- United States, Malaysia
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Encyclopedic overview
3 sectionsContents
- Taxonomy
- Genera
- References
The Melongenidae, the crown conchs and their relatives, are a taxonomic family of large to very large marine gastropods in the superfamily Buccinoidea.
== Taxonomy == For a while prior to 2004, the genera Busycon and Busycotypus were placed in the Melongenidae. Then, in 2004, based on their digestive systems and on cladistic analysis by Kosyan & Kantor (2004), these two genera were moved to the family Busyconidae within the superfamily Buccinoidea.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Melongenidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.