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

Buccinoidea Rafinesque, 1815

Rank: Superfamily
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Belomitridae Kantor, Puillandre, Rivasseau & Bouchet, 2012
Buccinidae Rafinesque, 1815
Chauvetiidae Kantor, Fedosov, Kosyan, Puillandre, Sorokin, Kano, R. Clark & Bouchet, 2021
Colidae J. E. Gray, 1857
Colubrariidae Dall, 1904
Columbellidae Swainson, 1840
Cominellidae J. E. Gray, 1857
Fasciolariidae Gray, 1853
Nassariidae Iredale, 1916 (1835)
Pisaniidae J. E. Gray, 1857
Retimohniidae Kantor, Fedosov, Kosyan, Puillandre, Sorokin, Kano, R. Clark & Bouchet, 2021
Tudiclidae Cossmann, 1901

Literature

basis of record	Kantor, Y.I., Fedosov, A.E., Kosyan, A.R., Puillandre, N., Sorokin, P.A., Kano, Y., Clark, R. N. & Bouchet, P. (2022 [nomenclatural availability: 2021]). Molecular phylogeny and revised classification of the Buccinoidea (Neogastropoda). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 194(3): 789-857.
additional source	Vaux, F., Hills, S. F. K., Marshall, B. A., Trewick, S. A. & Morgan-Richards, M. (2017). A phylogeny of Southern Hemisphere whelks (Gastropoda: Buccinulidae) and concordance with the fossil record. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 114: 367-381.
additional source	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.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Buccinoidea 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:382214