The Benthobiidae is a
taxonomic
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family
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of
sea snail
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s,
marine gastropod
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mollusc
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s in the
superfamily
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Olivoidea
Olivoidea is a taxonomic superfamily of minute to medium-large predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the order Neogastropoda.MolluscaBase (2018). Olivoidea Latreille, 1825. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: htt ...
.
Genera
Genera within the family Benthobiidae include:
* ''
Benthobia''
Dall, 1889
* ''
Fusulculus''
Bouchet & Vermeij, 1998
Genera brought into synonymy:
* ''Nux''
Barnard, 1960: synonym of ''Benthobia''
Dall, 1889
References
External links
Kantor Yu.I., Fedosov A.E., Puillandre N., Bonillo C. & Bouchet P. (2017). Returning to the roots: morphology, molecular phylogeny and classification of the Olivoidea (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 180(3): 493-541
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Olivoidea
Gastropod families