Muricoidea
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{{Taxobox
| name = Muricoidea
| regnum = [[Animal]]ia
| subregnum = Eumetazoa
| superphylum = Protostomia
| phylum = [[Mollusca]]
| classis = [[Gastropoda]]
| subclassis = [[Orthogastropoda]]
| superordo = [[Caenogastropoda]]
| ordo = [[Sorbeoconcha]]
| subordo = [[Hypsogastropoda]]
| infraordo = [[Neogastropoda]]
| superfamilia = '''Muricoidea'''
| superfamilia_authority = [[Rafinesque]], 1815
| subdivision_ranks = Families
| subdivision = See text.
}}
'''Muricoidea''' is a [[taxonomic]] [[superfamily]] of [[predatory]] sea [[snail]]s, [[marine (ocean)|marine]] [[gastropod]] [[mollusk]]s in the infraorder Neogastropoda.
This superfamily includes the murex snails, the chank snails, the true [[whelk]]s, the dove snails, the crown conchs and busycon whelks, the spindle and tulip snails, the volutes and olives, the harp snails, the margin snails, the miters, and others.
==Shell description==
It is hard to generalize about such a diverse group, but the [[gastropod shell|shell]] of these snails has an oval [[Aperture (mollusc)|aperture]], and a noticeable [[siphonal canal]].
==The fossil record==
The muricoids first appeared during the [[Cretaceous|Cretaceous period]].
==Families within the superfamily Muricoidea==
* ''[[Babyloniidae]]'' <small>T. Kuroda et al., 1971</small>
* ''[[Costellariidae]]'' <small>McDonald, 1860</small>
* ''[[Cystiscidae]]'' <small>Stimpson, 1865</small>
* ''[[Harpidae]]'' <small>Bronn, 1840</small>
* ''[[Marginellidae]]'' <small>Fleming, 1828</small>
* ''[[Mitridae]]'' <small>[[Swainson]], 1829</small>
* ''[[Muricidae]]'' <small>[[Rafinesque]], 1815</small>
* ''†[[Pholidotomidae]]'' <small>Cossmann, 1896</small>
* ''[[Pleioptygmatidae]]'' <small>Quinn, 1989</small>
* ''[[Strepsiduridae]]'' <small>Cossman, 1901</small>
* ''[[Turbinellidae]]'' <small>[[Swainson]], 1835</small>
* ''[[Volutidae]]'' <small>[[Rafinesque]], 1815</small>
* ''[[Volutomitridae]]'' <small>Gray, 1854</small>
==References==
* {{aut|Bouchet, Philippe & Jean-Pierre Rocroi}} 2005. Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families. ''Malacologia 47(1-2)'': 1-397.
* {{aut|Ponder, WF & DR Lindberg}} 1997. Towards a phylogeny of gastropod molluscs: an analysis using morphological characters. ''Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 119(2)'': 83-265.
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