Family BUCCINIDAE Rafinesque, 1815

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• Buccinidae Rafinesque, C.S. 1815. Analyse de la nature, ou tableau de l'univers et des corps organises. Palermo (Italy) : Privately Published 224 pp. [Date published April to July] [145].

  Type genus:

   Buccinum Linnaeus, 1758.

Introduction

Following the revised classification of Kantor et al. (2022) most Australian genera previously placed in the Buccinidae are reassigned to different families. The single exception being the genus Buccipagoda Ponder, 2010 which Kantor et al. (2022) were not able to confidently assign to a family, listing it as unplaced with a possible allocation to Buccinidae. We retain the genus in Buccinidae until further studies can resolve it's relationship to other buccinoid taxa.

General References

Hayashi, S. 2005. The molecular phylogeny of the Buccinidae (Caenogastropoda: Neogastropoda) as inferred from the complete mitochondrial 16S rRNA gene sequences of selected representatives. Molluscan Research 25(2): 85-98 [85-97]

Kantor, Y.I., Fedosov, A.E., Kosyan, A.R., Puillandre, N., Sorokin, P.A., Kano, Y, Clark, R. & Bouchet, P. 2022. Molecular phylogeny and revised classification of the Buccinoidea (Neogastropoda). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 194: 789-857

Kohn, A.J., Taylor, J.D. & Wai, J.M. 1997. Diets of predatory gastropods of the families Mitridae and Buccinidae in the Houtman Abrolhos Islands, Western Australia. Proceedings of the Seventh International Marine Biological Workshop; the marine flora and fauna of the Houtman Abrolhos Islands, Western Australia. Volume 1. Wells, F.E. (ed). pp. 133-139 [133-139]

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