Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Parent taxon: Muricidae according to P. Bouchet et al. 2005
See also Adegoke 1977, DeVries 2000, MacNeil 1960, Sohl 1964, Sohl 1964, Vermeij and Herbert 2004 and Ward 1992
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, Reishia, Shaskyus, Siphonochelus, Sohliina, Spinidrupa, Spinucella, Thaidinae, Thais, Trachypollia, Tripterotyphinae, Tritonaliinae, Trophoninae, Typhinae, Typhinellus, Typhis, Vitularia, Yasila, Yunomys
Subtaxa: Califrapana Concholepas Ecphora Indothais Neorapana Rapana Sargana Stramonita Thaisella Tritonopsis
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Angola (1 collection), Bermuda (1), Chile (20), Japan (11), Mexico (4), Namibia (5), Peru (11), Portugal (6), Saudi Arabia (1), South Africa (1), Spain (9), Taiwan (2), Thailand (2), United States (12: California, Florida, Louisiana, Maryland, New Jersey), Uruguay (2), Venezuela (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Chile (1)
• Pliocene of Chile (7), Costa Rica (1), Iran (1), Jamaica (1), Pakistan (3), Peru (22), Trinidad and Tobago (6), United States (29: California, Florida, South Carolina, Virginia), Venezuela (3)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Chile (1), the Dominican Republic (3)
• Miocene of Argentina (1), Austria (1), Chile (1), the Dominican Republic (1), Fiji (1), Greece (2), Mexico (6), Pakistan (3), Panama (2), Peru (10), Poland (1), Romania (1), Trinidad and Tobago (2), United States (90: California, Delaware, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, Virginia), Venezuela (1)
• Neogene of Chile (2)
• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (5: Florida, Georgia)
• Oligocene of Germany (1), United States (20: California, Mississippi, North Carolina, Virginia)
• Eocene of Peru (1)
• Paleocene of Nigeria (1)
• Cretaceous of United States (58: Alabama, Delaware, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas)
Total: 378 collections including 427 occurrences