Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Parent taxon: Muricidae according to B. Landau and C. Marques da Silva 2010
See also Bouchet et al. 2005, Gertman 1969, Perrilliat 1992, Ponder and Warén 1988, Schnetler et al. 2024, Vokes 1983, Ward 1992 and Wilson 1994
Sister taxa: Acanthotrophon, Aspella, Atractodon, Attiliosa, Austrotrophon, Babelomurex, Boreotrophon, Calothrophon, Calotrophon, Cathymorula, Coralliophilinae, Crassimurex, Cymia, Dermomurex, Drupinae, Eofavartia, Ergalataxinae, Favartia, Hadriania, Haustrinae, Heteropurpura, Hexaplex, Homalocantha, Jaton, Lyrotyphis, Mexacanthina, Monoceros, Morula, Murexiella, Murexsul, Muricanthus, Muricidea, Muricinae, Muricopsinae, Muricopsis, Murotriton, Nucella, Nucellopsis, Ocenebra, Ocenebrinae, Ocinebrina, Ocinebrinae, Odontopolys, Orania, Pagodula, Phyllocoma, Ponderia, Pterochelus, Pteropurpura, Pterorhytis, Pterotyphis, Pterymarchia, Pterynotus, Purpura, Purpurellus, Pygmaepterys, Rapaninae, Reishia, Shaskyus, Siphonochelus, Sohliina, Spinidrupa, Spinucella, Thaidinae, Thais, Trachypollia, Tripterotyphinae, Tritonaliinae, Trophoninae, Typhinellus, Typhis, Vitularia, Yasila, Yunomys
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Costa Rica (4 collections), the Dominican Republic (2), Ecuador (3), Jamaica (4), Mexico (1), Panama (4), Venezuela (2)
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (1)
• Miocene of Australia (1), Colombia (2), Costa Rica (1), the Dominican Republic (2), Ecuador (3), Haiti (1), Panama (12), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (32: California, Florida)
• Oligocene of United States (2: Florida, Mississippi)
• Eocene of United States (11: Mississippi, Texas)
Total: 89 collections including 97 occurrences