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Costellariidae
| Costellariidae | |
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| Two shells of Vexillum consanguineum | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Turbinelloidea |
| Family: | Costellariidae MacDonald, 1860 |
| Diversity[1] | |
| about 475 recent species | |
| Synonyms | |
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Costellariidae sometimes called the "ribbed miters" is a taxonomic family of minute to medium-sized predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks.[2] This family of snails is also sometimes referred to as Vexillum miters. The main family of miter shells however is Mitridae, a closely related group.
The monophyly of this family has been confirmed.[3]
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
Fedosov 2010was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Bouchet, P.; Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2).
- ^ Fedosov, Alexander E., et al., Phylogeny, systematics, and evolution of the family Costellariidae (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda); Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2017, 179, 541–626
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