| Coralliophila | |
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| Apertural view of a shell of Coralliophila inflata | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Subfamily: | Coralliophilinae |
| Genus: | Coralliophila H. & A. Adams, 1853 |
| Type species | |
| Murex neritoideus Gmelin, 1791
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Coralliophila is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Coralliophilinae, the coral snails, within the family Muricidae, the murex snails and rock snails.[2]
The genus Coralliophila is most probably polyphyletic and should be restricted to the species most closely related to the type species.[3][4] Species in the genus Hirtomurex, situated in the Indo-West Pacific are not clearly distinguishable from the species in the genus Coralliophila sensu lato (in the broad sense) found in the Eastern Atlantic.[5]
- ^ OBIS : Coralliophila
- ^ Coralliophila H. & A. Adams, 1853. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 2 February 2011.
- ^ [Oliverio M. and P. Mariottini. 2001a. A molecular framework for the phylogeny of Coralliophila and related muricoids. J. Moll. Stud. 67: 215–224.
- ^ Oliverio M. M. Cervelli, and P. Mariottini. 2002. ITS2 rRNA evolution and its congruence with the phylogeny of muricid neogastropods (Caenogastropoda, Muricoidea) Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 25: 63–69.
- ^ Oliverio, Marco; Gofas, Serge, Coralliophiline diversity at mid-Atlantic seamounts (Neogastropoda, Muricidae, Coralliophilinae) , Bulletin of Marine Science, Volume 79, Number 1, July 2006 , pp. 205-230(26)