Ocenebrinae

Subfamily of gastropods

Ocenebrinae

A live individual of Ceratostoma foliatum, head end towards the lower left
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Mollusca
Class:  | Gastropoda
Subclass:  | Caenogastropoda
Order:  | Neogastropoda
Family:  | Muricidae
Subfamily:  | Ocenebrinae
Cossmann, 1903
Genera

See text

Synonyms

Nucellidae Salisbury, 1940

Ocenebrinae is a taxonomic subfamily of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks. This subfamily is within the large family Muricidae, which are commonly known as the murex and rock snails.

In one[which?] other version of current gastropod taxonomy, three of these genera are grouped by themselves in a small subfamily called Haustrinae.[citation needed]

## Genera[edit]

Genera within the subfamily Ocenebrinae include:

* Acanthina
* Acanthinucella
* Africanella
* Agnewia
* Austrotrophon Dall, 1902
* Calcitrapessa
* Ceratostoma
* Chicocenebra
* Chorus
* Chorus giganteus
* Crassilabrum
* Eupleura
* Favartia
* Forreria
* Genkaimurex
* Hadriania
* Haustrum
* Inermicosta
* Jaton
* Lepsiella
* Lepsithais
* Mexacanthina Marko & Vermeij, 1999
* Muregina Vermeij, 1998
* Muricopsis
* Namamurex
* Neothais
* Nucella
* Ocenebra
* Ocenotrophon McLean, 1995
* Ocinebrellus Jousseaume, 1880
* Ocinebrina
* Paciocinebrina
* Poropteron Jousseaume, 1880
* Pteropurpura
* Pterotyphis
* Pterorytis Conrad, 1863
* † Pterynopsis E. H. Vokes, 1972
* Roperia
* Trachypollia
* Trochia Swainson, 1840
* Tritoniformis
* Urosalpinx
* Vaughtia
* Vitularia
* Xanthochorus P. Fischer, 1884
* Zacatrophon Hertlein & Strong, 1951

Fossil genera:

* Ecphora

Gener a brought into synonymy

* Hanetia: synonym of Urosalpinx Stimpson, 1865
* Microrhytis: synonym of Ceratostoma Herrmannsen, 1846
* Ocinebrellus: synonym of Pteropurpura Jousseaume, 1880
* Poropteron: synonym of Pteropurpura Jousseaume, 1880
* Shaskyus: synonym of Pteropurpura Jousseaume, 1880

## References[edit]

* NZ mollusca
* Barco, A.; Herbert, G.; Houart, R.; Fassio, G. & Oliverio, M. (2017). A molecular phylogenetic framework for the subfamily Ocenebrinae (Gastropoda, Muricidae). Zoologica Scripta. 46 (3): 322-335.

Wikispecies has information related to Ocenebrinae.

Taxon identifiers|

* Wikidata: Q7076276
* Wikispecies: Ocenebrinae
* ADW: Ocenebrinae
* BioLib: 24605
* CoL: 7NXWD
* EoL: 4947693
* Fossilworks: 91285
* GBIF: 4601994
* iNaturalist: 320904
* NBN: NHMSYS0021055835
* uBio: 6064421
* WoRMS: 225324

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