Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Parent taxon: Coralliophilinae according to B. Landau and C. Marques da Silva 2010
See also Darragh 2017, Ladd 1977, Ladd 1982, Landau et al. 2007, MacNeil 1960, Martin 1904, Sepkoski 2002, Todd 2001, Wienrich 2001 and Wilson 1994
Sister taxa: Emozamia, Magilidae, Mipus, Rapa
Subtaxa: Coralliophila (Coralliophila) Coralliophila (Fuxomurex) Coralliophila (Pseudomurex) Coralliophila abberans Coralliophila caribaea Coralliophila klostermanni Coralliophila meyendorffii Coralliophila miocenica Coralliophila neritoidea Coralliophila nux
Type: Fusus neritoideus
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (1 collection), Costa Rica (1), Ecuador (1), Italy (1), Japan (6), the Marshall Islands (1), Panama (1), Portugal (2), the Seychelles (2), United States (6: California, Florida, Hawaii), Vanuatu (1)
• Pliocene of Italy (1), Jamaica (1), Mexico (2), Spain (3), United States (3: Florida, South Carolina), Venezuela (2)
• Miocene of Belgium (1), the Dominican Republic (1), France (8), Germany (8), Hungary (2), Indonesia (2), Italy (1), Japan (2), the Marshall Islands (4), Palau (1), Poland (1), South Africa (1), Spain (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (4: Florida)
• Oligocene of France (2), United States (1: North Carolina)
• Eocene of Australia (1), United States (6: Louisiana, Mississippi)
Total: 82 collections including 98 occurrences
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