Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Heterobranchia > Infraclass Mesoneura > Superfamily Murchisonelloidea

Murchisonellidae T. L. Casey, 1904

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Ebalinae Warén, 1995
Murchisonellinae T. L. Casey, 1904
Saccoina Dall & Bartsch, 1904

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: ガクバンゴウナ科

Literature

original description	Casey, T. L. (1904). Notes on the Pleurotomidae with description of some new genera and species. Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis. 14: 123-170.
basis of record	Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia. 47 (1-2): 1-397. [20 July].
status source	Warén A. (2013) Murchisonellidae: who are they, where are they and what are they doing? (Gastropoda, lowermost Heterobranchia). Vita Malacologica 11: 1-14.
taxonomy 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. Murchisonellidae T. L. Casey, 1904. 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:411886