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Borsoniidae
Family of sea snails / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Borsoniidae is a monophyletic family of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.[1][2]
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Apertural view of a shell of Tomopleura reevii | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Borsoniidae Bellardi, 1875 |
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In 2011, Bouchet, Kantor et al. brought genera from the subfamilies Clathurellinae and Raphitominae (they were previously placed in the family Conidae), as well as genera from the subfamily Zemaciinae (at that point belonging to the family Turridae), together to form the family Borsoniidae. This re-arrangement was based on anatomical characters and a dataset of molecular sequences of three gene fragments[3]