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

Ocenebrinae Cossmann, 1903

Rank: Subfamily
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Subfamily group names

*Trophoninae*	Cossmann, 1903	synonym

Children

Gracilipurpura Jousseaume, 1880
Nucella Röding, 1798
Ocenebra Leach, 1847
Ocinebrellus Jousseaume, 1880
Ocinebrina Jousseaume, 1880
Pteropurpura Jousseaume, 1880
Scabrotrophon J. H. McLean, 1996
Trophon Montfort, 1810
Urosalpinx W. Stimpson, 1865

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: ヨウラクガイ亜科

Literature

original description	Cossmann, M. (1903). Essais de paléoconchologie comparée. Cinquième livraison. Paris, The author and de Rudeval. 215 pp., 9 pls.
basis of record	Houart, R. (2024). Living Muricidae of the world. Ocenebrinae. Harxheim: ConchBooks. 238 pp.
additional source	Barco, A.; Herbert, G.; Houart, R.; Fassio, G. & Oliverio, M. (2017). A molecular phylogenetic framework for the subfamily Ocenebrinae (Gastropoda, Muricidae). Zoologica Scripta. 46 (3): 322-335.
status source	Russini, V.; Fassio, G.; Nocella, E.; Houart, R.; Barco, A.; Puillandre, N.; Lozouet, P.; Modica, M. V.; Oliverio, M. (2023). Whelks, rock-snails, and allied: a new phylogenetic framework for the family Muricidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). The European Zoological Journal. 90(2): 856-868.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Ocenebrinae Cossmann, 1903. 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:225324