Vasidae | |
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A live but retracted individual of Vasum rhinoceras in a tide pool in Mombasa, Kenya, Africa | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Turbinelloidea |
Family: | Vasidae H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853 (1840) |
Type genus | |
Vasum Röding, 1798 | |
Synonyms[1] | |
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Vasidae, common name the vase snails or vase shells, are a taxonomic family of large predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks within the superfamily Turbinelloidea. [1]
Before 2024 it was considered as a subfamily of the Turbinellidae. [2]