Harpidae

Harpidae
	A live individual of Harpa major
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Harpidae; Bronn, 1849
Genera
	See text

The Harpidae, known as the harp snails, are the members of a taxonomic family of large predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks.^[2]

This family is temporarily classified in the superfamily Neogastropoda incertae sedis. ^[3]

Subfamilies and genera

This family consists of the following subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005):

Genera in the family Harpidae include:

Morum Röding, 1798 - type genus of the subfamily Moruminae
Cancellomorum Emerson & Old, 1963: synonym of Morum Röding, 1798
Herculea H. Adams & A. Adams, 1858: synonym of Morum (Herculea) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1858 represented as Morum Röding, 1798
Lambidium Link, 1807: synonym of Morum Röding, 1798
Onimusiro Kuroda, Habe & Oyama, 1971: synonym of Morum Röding, 1798
Oniscia G. B. Sowerby I, 1825: synonym of Morum Röding, 1798
Oniscidia Mörch, 1852: synonym of Morum (Oniscidia) Mörch, 1852 represented as Morum Röding, 1798
Pulchroniscia Garrard, 1961: synonym of Morum (Oniscidia) Mörch, 1852 represented as Morum Röding, 1798

^ (in German) Bronn H. G. 1849. Index Palaeontologicus: Oder Übersicht der bis jetzt bekannten fossilen Organismen, II, Abt. B, Enumerator paleontologicus. Schweizerbart, Stuttgart, 972 pp. Harpidae is on the page 469.
^ Bouchet, P.; Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2).
^ MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Harpidae Bronn, 1849. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=196294 on 2024-09-10
^ Hughes & Emerson. (1 April) 1987. The Veliger, 29(4):357.

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