Superfamily

Buccinoidea (True whelks and allies)

Caesia fossata. Photo: (c) pliffgrieff, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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Buccinoidea is a taxonomic superfamily of very small to large predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks.

Humboldt Life
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
  - Phylum: Mollusca (Molluscs)
    - Class: Gastropoda (Gastropods)
      - Subclass: Caenogastropoda (Caenogastropods)
        Order: Neogastropoda
        Superfamily: Buccinoidea (True whelks and allies)
        Family: Columbellidae (Dove snails) (3)
        Family: Tudiclidae (1)
        Family: Nassariidae (Nassa mudsnails) (1)

Subtaxa

Family: Columbellidae (Dove snails)

Family: Tudiclidae

Family: Nassariidae (Nassa mudsnails)

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