The Colidae are a
taxonomic family
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of large
sea snails, belonging to the superfamily
Buccinoidea
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 ...
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[MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Colidae Gray, 1857. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1522115 on 2022-11-19]
Genera
* ''
Colus''
Röding, 1798
* ''
Kryptos
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Dautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1896
* ''
Turrisipho''
Dautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1912
;Synonyms:
* ''Atractus''
Agassiz, 1839: synonym of ''Colus''
Röding, 1798 (invalid: junior homonym of ''Atractus''
Wagler, 1828 eptilia also junior objective synonym of Colus)
* ''Colicryptus''
Iredale, 1918: synonym of ''
Turrisipho''
Dautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1912
* ''Sipho''
Mörch, 1852: synonym of ''Colus''
Röding, 1798
* ''Siphonorbis''
Mörch, 1869: synonym of ''Colus''
Röding, 1798
* ''Tritonofusus''
Beck, 1847: synonym of ''Colus''
Röding, 1798 (junior objective synonym of Colus)
References
External links
Gray, J. E. (1857). Guide to the systematic distribution of Mollusca in the British Museum. Part I. (Gastropoda). British Museum, London, xii + 230 pp.Kantor, Y.I., Fedosov, A.E., Kosyan, A.R., Puillandre, N., Sorokin, P.A., Kano, Y., Clark, R. N. & Bouchet, P. (2022 [nomenclatural availability: 2021. Molecular phylogeny and revised classification of the Buccinoidea (Neogastropoda). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 194: 789-857.]
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Buccinoidea