The Harpidae, known as the harp snails, are the members of a

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predatory Predation is a biological interaction in which one organism, the predator, kills and eats another organism, its prey. It is one of a family of common feeding behaviours that includes parasitism and micropredation (which usually do not kill ...

sea snail Sea snails are slow-moving marine (ocean), marine gastropod Mollusca, molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the Taxonomic classification, taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguishe ...

s, marine gastropod mollusks. This family is temporarily classified in the superfamily

Neogastropoda incertae sedis Neogastropoda is an order of aquatic snails, both freshwater and marine gastropod molluscs. Description The available fossil record of Neogastropoda is relatively complete, and supports a widely accepted evolutionary scenario of an Early Cre ...

. MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Harpidae Bronn, 1849. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=196294 on 2024-09-10

Subfamilies and genera

This family consists of the following subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005): * Harpinae Bronn, 1849 * † Cryptochordinae Korobkov, 1955 * Moruminae Hughes & Emerson, 1987Hughes & Emerson. (1 April) 1987.

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, 29(4):357. Genera in the family Harpidae include: ; Genus † '' Asiaharpa'' Raven, 2021 ;Harpinae *''

Austroharpa ''Austroharpa'' is a genus of sea snails, marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusks in the family (biology), family Harpidae.Finlay H.J. (1931). On Austrosassia, Austroharpa, and Austrolithes, new genera; with some remarks on the gastropod protoc ...

'' Finlay, 1931 * † ''

Eocithara ''Eocithara'' is an extinct genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks, in the family Harpidae.MolluscaBase (2018). ''Eocithara'' P. Fischer, 1883. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.ph ...

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Harpa ''Harpa'', common name the "harp snails", is a genus of large predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Harpidae.Gofas, S.; Bouchet, P. (2015). Harpa Röding, 1798. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of ...

'' Röding, 1798 - type genus of the family Harpidae * ''Harpalis'' Link, 1807: synonym of ''Harpa'' Röding, 1798 * ''Palamharpa'' Iredale, 1931: synonym of ''Austroharpa'' Finlay, 1931 ;† Cryptochordinae * † '' Cryptochorda'' Mörch, 1858 - type genus of the subfamily Cryptochordinae ; Moruminae *''

Morum ''Morum'' is a genus of sea snails, marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Moruminae of the family (biology), family Harpidae.MolluscaBase (2018). ''Morum'' Röding, 1798. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at ...

'' Röding, 1798 - type genus of the subfamily Moruminae * ''Cancellomorum'' Emerson & Old, 1963: synonym of ''Morum'' Röding, 1798 * ''Herculea'' H. Adams & A. Adams, 1858: synonym of ''Morum'' (Herculea) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1858 represented as ''Morum'' Röding, 1798 * ''Lambidium'' Link, 1807: synonym of ''Morum'' Röding, 1798 * ''Onimusiro'' Kuroda, Habe & Oyama, 1971: synonym of ''Morum'' Röding, 1798 * ''Oniscia'' G. B. Sowerby I, 1825: synonym of ''Morum'' Röding, 1798 * ''Oniscidia'' Mörch, 1852: synonym of ''Morum (Oniscidia)'' Mörch, 1852 represented as ''Morum'' Röding, 1798 * ''Pulchroniscia'' Garrard, 1961: synonym of ''Morum (Oniscidia)'' Mörch, 1852 represented as ''Morum'' Röding, 1798 Image:Cryptochorda stromboides 01.JPG, '' Cryptochorda stromboides'' Image:Harpa davidis 01.JPG, ''

Harpa davidis ''Harpa davidis'', common name the Madras harp or David harp, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family (biology), family Harpidae, the harp snails. Distribution This species is widespread over Indo-Pacific, from easte ...

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References

External links

Ladd, H.S. (1977). Cenozoic fossil mollusks from western Pacific islands; Gastropods (Eratoidae through Harpidae). U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper. 533: i–iv, 1–84, pls 1–23
Gastropod families Taxa named by Heinrich Georg Bronn {{Harpidae-stub