Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Parent taxon: Muricoidea according to M. Harzhauser 2007
See also Addicott 1970, Beesley 1998, Bouchet et al. 2005, Givens 1978, Grant, IV and Gale 1931, Harris and Palmer 1947, Harzhauser 2004, Harzhauser and Mandic 2001, Martin 1904, Olsson 1931, Ponder and Warén 1988, Rivera 1957, Saul and Squires 2008, Sohl 1964, Squires 1984, Squires 1987, Squires 1988, Squires 2012, Squires and Saul 2003, Stilwell et al. 2004, Todd 2001, Turner 1938, Vokes 1998, Ward 1992 and Ward and Blackwelder 1987
Sister taxa: Babyloniidae, Coralliophilidae, Cystiscidae, Fulgerca, Harpidae, Marginellidae, Mitracea, Muricidae, Pholidotomidae, Purpurellidae, Rachiglossa, Strepsiduridae, Taurasinae, Tudiclidae
Subtaxa: Alcithoinae Amoria Amoriinae Athletinae Aurinia Benthovoluta Calliotectinae Caricellinae Closia Cymbiinae Cymbium Enaeta Eucymba Fulgorariinae Haliinae Indovolutinae Notopeplum Notoplejona Notovoluta Odontocymbiolinae Pavora Phenacoptygma Santeevoluta Scaphella Scaphellinae Teremachia Tovula Volutilithinae Volutinae Volutoderminae Yetinae Zidoninae
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore