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Muricidae gen. et sp. indet., Murex snail(s)

family Muricidae Rafinesque, 1815

• Modern species
• Habitat: Marine

• Classification
• kingdom Animalia, phylum Mollusca, class Gastropoda, order Neogastropoda

• Distribution
• Eocene-Oligocene: Fukuoka
• Miocene: Yamagata, Nagano, Toyama, Fukui, Tochigi, Gifu, Tottori, Yamaguchi
• Pliocene: Aomori, Niigata, Mie
• Pliocene-Pleistocene: Kanagawa
• Quaternary: Hiroshima
• Pleistocene: Hokkaido, Aomori, Akita, Niigata, Toyama, Ishikawa, Ibaraki, Saitama, Tokyo, Chiba, Kanagawa, Shizuoka, Aichi
• Holocene: Saitama, Tokyo, Chiba, Aichi

• Subtaxa
• Bedeva, genus
• Boreotrophon, genus
• Chicoreus asanoi
• Chicoreus asianus
• Chicoreus palmarosae, Rose-branch murex
• Chicoreus tiganouranus
• Ergalatax, genus
• Nipponotrophon, genus
• Nucella, genus, Dog whelk
• Ocenebra inornata, Japanese dwarf triton
• Ocinebrellus, genus
• Phyllonotus, genus
• Pseudoperissolax yokoyamai
• Rapana rapiformis, Turnip-shaped rapana
• Rapana venosa, Veined rapa whelk
• Reishia, genus
• Thais, genus, Dog winkle
• Trophonopsis kagaensis