Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Neogastropoda > Superfamily Muricoidea

Muricidae Rafinesque, 1815

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Aspellinae Keen, 1971
Coralliophilinae Chenu, 1859
Ergalataxinae Kuroda, T. Habe & Oyama, 1971
Haustrinae K. S. Tan, 2003
Muricidae incertae sedis
Muricinae Rafinesque, 1815
Ocenebrinae Cossmann, 1903
Pagodulinae Barco, Schiaparelli, Houart & Oliverio, 2012
Rapaninae Gray, 1853
Typhinae Cossmann, 1903

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: purperslakken; stekelhorens sources: Backeljau, T. (1986). Lijst van de recente mariene mollusken van België [List of the recent marine molluscs of Belgium]. Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen: Brussels, Belgium. 106 pp.;Hayward, P.; Nelson-Smith, A.; Shields, C. (1999). Gids van kust en strand: flora en fauna [Coast and beach guide: flora and fauna]. Tirion: Baarn, Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-327-5. 352, ill. pp.

English: murex shells; murex snails; rock shells sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

German: Muriciden; Stachelschnecken sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

Japanese: アッキガイ科 sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.

Swedish: purpursnäckor

Literature

original description	Rafinesque, C.S. (1815). Analyse de la nature ou Tableau de l'univers et des corps organisés. Published by the author, Palermo. 224 pp.
basis of record	Bouchet P., Rocroi J.P., Hausdorf B., Kaim A., Kano Y., Nützel A., Parkhaev P., Schrödl M. & Strong E.E. (2017). Revised classification, nomenclator and typification of gastropod and monoplacophoran families. Malacologia. 61(1-2): 1-526.
additional source	Houart, R. (2018). Historique et classification des espèces actuelles de Muricidae (Neogastropoda, Muricoidea). Novapex. 19 (2): 37-66.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Muricidae Rafinesque, 1815. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:148