Volutes and Nutmeg Snails
Volutoidea
Muricoidea is a taxonomic superfamily of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Neogastropoda.
This superfamily includes the murex snails, the dove snails, the harp snails, and others.
4 branches of this superfamily, most-observed first
Volutes
familyVolutidae
Margin Shells
familyMarginellidae
Cystiscidae
familyCystiscidae
Marginellonidae
familyMarginellonidae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Volutoidea in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 775577.