age of the Cretaceous period. Subfamilies According to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005) the family Muricidae consists of these subfamilies: Aspellinae Keen, 1971 Coralliophilinae Chenu, 1859 - synonym: Magilidae Thiele, 1925 Ergalataxinae Kuroda, Habe & Oyama, 1971 Haustrinae Tan, 2003 Muricinae Rafinesque, 1815 Muricopsinae Radwin & d'Attilio, 1971 Ocenebrinae Cossmann, 1903 Pagodulinae Barco, Schiaparelli, Houart & Oliverio, 2012 Rapaninae Gray, 1853 - synonym: Thaididae Jousseaume, 1888 Tripterotyphinae d'Attilio & Hertz, 1988 Trophoninae Cossmann, 1903 Typhinae Cossmann, 1903 Synonyms Subfamily Drupinae Wenz, 1938: synonym of Rapaninae Gray, 1853 Genus Drupinia [sic]: synonym of Drupina Dall, 1923 Genus Galeropsis Hupé, 1860: synonym of Coralliophila H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853 Tritoninae Gray, 1847: synonym of Ranellidae Gray, 1854 (Invalid: type genus placed on the Official Index by Opinion 886 [junior homonym of Triton Linnaeus, 1758]) References Houart, R. (1994). Illustrated Catalogue of Recent Species of Muricidae named since 1971. 181 pp. [incl. 28 pls.], Verlag Christa Hemmen, Wiesbaden. . Poutiers, J. M. (1998). Gastropods in: FAO Species Identification Guide for Fishery Purposes: The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific Volume 1. Seaweeds, corals, bivalves and gastropods. Rome: FAO. page 553. Rosenberg, Gary (1992) The Encyclopedia of Seashells. New York: Dorset Press. Vaught, K.C. (1989) A Classification of the Living Mollusca. American Malacologists, Inc., Melbourne, Florida. External links CAAB listing for family Muricidae George E.Radwin and Anthony D'Attilio: The Murex shells of the World, Stanford University press, 1976, Pappalardo P., Rodríguez-Serrano E. & Fernández M. (2014). "Correlated Evolution between Mode of Larval Development and Habitat in Muricid Gastropods". PLoS ONE 9(4): e94104. Miocene Gastropods and Biostratigraphy of the Kern River Area, California; United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 642 Taxa named by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque