Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Parent taxon: Muricoidea according to P. Bouchet et al. 2005
See also Abbott 1974, Addicott 1970, Adegoke 1977, Beesley 1998, Beu et al. 1990, Chiesa et al. 1995, Clark and Arnold 1923, DeVries 2000, Givens and Kennedy 1976, Grant, IV and Gale 1931, Harris and Palmer 1947, Harzhauser 2002, Harzhauser 2004, Harzhauser and Mandic 2001, Hickman 1980, Houart 1996, Landau and Marques da Silva 2010, Martin 1904, Merle and Pacaud 2002, Olsson 1931, Ponder and Warén 1988, Schnetler et al. 2024, Sohl 1964, Squires 1984, Todd 2001, Turner 1938, Vokes 1989, Ward 1992, Ward and Blackwelder 1987 and Wienrich 2001
Sister taxa: Babyloniidae, Cystiscidae, Fulgerca, Harpidae, Marginellidae, Mitracea, Pholidotomidae, Purpurellidae, Rachiglossa, Strepsiduridae, Taurasinae, Volutidae
Subtaxa: Acanthotrophon Aspella Atractodon Attiliosa Austrotrophon Boreotrophon Calothrophon Calotrophon Cathymorula Coralliophilinae Crassimurex Dermomurex Drupinae Ergalataxinae Favartia Hadriania Haustrinae Heteropurpura Hexaplex Homalocantha Jaton Lyrotyphis Mexacanthina Monoceros Morula Murexiella Murexsul Muricanthus Muricidea Muricinae Muricopsinae Murotriton Nucella Nucellopsis Ocenebra Ocenebrinae Ocinebrina Ocinebrinae Odontopolys Orania Pagodula Phyllocoma Ponderia Pterochelus Pteropurpura Pterorhytis Pterotyphis Pterymarchia Pterynotus Purpurellus Pygmaepterys Rapaninae Shaskyus Siphonochelus Sohliina Spinidrupa Spinucella Thaidinae Trachypollia Tripterotyphinae Tritonaliinae Trophoninae Typhinae Typhinellus Typhis Vitularia Yasila Yunomys
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore