Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Melongenidae
Alternative spelling: Melongeniinae
Synonym: Galeodidae Thiele 1925
Parent taxon: Melongenidae according to B. Landau and C. Marques da Silva 2010
See also Adegoke 1977, Bouchet et al. 2005, Ponder and Warén 1988, Squires and Saul 2000 and Stilwell et al. 2004
Sister taxa: Busyconinae, Cornulina, Echinofulgurinae, Fascioplex, Fyfea, Levifusus, Lomirosa, Nipponitys, Palaeatractus, Protobusycon, Pseudomazzalina, Pugilina, Pyrifusus, Saginafusus, Saturnus, Sycostoma, Torquifer, Tropochasca, Volema
Subtaxa: Deussenia Heligmotoma Melongena Pentzia Probuccinum Serrifusus
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Colombia (1 collection), Djibouti (2), Ecuador (1), Jamaica (1), Mexico (2), Panama (1), Peru (1), United States (21: Florida, Georgia, Louisiana), Venezuela (4)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of United States (3: Florida)
• Pliocene of Colombia (4), Costa Rica (2), the Dominican Republic (2), Mexico (2), Pakistan (1), the Philippines (3), Trinidad and Tobago (4), United States (4: Florida), Venezuela (2)
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (1), Indonesia (1)
• Miocene of Australia (1), Austria (1), Brazil (2), Colombia (60), the Dominican Republic (33), Ecuador (4), France (3), Germany (1), Greece (3), India (1), Indonesia (1), Iran (2), Pakistan (5), Panama (25), Peru (5), the Philippines (1), Poland (1), Turkey (2), United States (7: California, Florida), Venezuela (8)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Haiti (2), United States (2: Florida)
• Oligocene of Austria (1), Colombia (1), Costa Rica (1), Greece (3), Hungary (1), Iran (1), Myanmar (2), Oman (1), Peru (1), Romania (1), United States (4: Florida, Mississippi)
• Eocene of Colombia (1), Egypt (2), France (2), Italy (1), Namibia (1), Peru (2), Romania (7), Saudi Arabia (1), Somalia (1), Venezuela (1)
• Paleocene of Antarctica (7), Egypt (3), Mali (1), Nigeria (1), Poland (2)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of United States (1: California)
• Cretaceous of Japan (1), the Russian Federation (1), United States (85: Alabama, California, Georgia, Maryland, Mississippi, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Washington, Wyoming)
Total: 371 collections including 409 occurrences