| Megasurcula | |
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| A live individual of Megasurcula carpenteriana on the sea bed | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Pseudomelatomidae |
| Genus: | Megasurcula Casey, 1904[1] |
| Type species | |
| Pleurotoma (Surcula) carpenteriana Gabb, 1865 | |
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Megasurcula is a genus of medium-sized predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Pseudomelatomidae, a family previously lumped with others collectively known as turrids.[3] Species within this genus occur in the Eastern Pacific Ocean[2]
- ^ Casey, Thos. L. (1904). "Notes on the Pleurotomidae with Description of Some New Genera and Species". Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis. 14: 123 at 147–148.
- ^ a b MolluscaBase (2020). MolluscaBase. Megasurcula T. L. Casey, 1904. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=432503 on 2020-01-25
- ^ Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (Ed.); Frýda J., Hausdorf B., Ponder W., Valdes A. & Warén A. 2005. Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia: International Journal of Malacology, 47(1-2). ConchBooks: Hackenheim, Germany. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997. 397 pp. http://www.vliz.be/Vmdcdata/imis2/ref.php?refid=78278