The Melongenidae, the crown conchs and their relatives, are a taxonomic family of large to very large marine gastropods in the superfamily Buccinoidea.
Taxonomy
For a while prior to 2004, the genera Busycon and Busycotypus were placed in the Melongenidae. Then, in 2004, based on their digestive systems and on cladistic analysis by Kosyan & Kantor (2004), these two genera were moved to the family Busyconidae within the superfamily Buccinoidea.
According to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005), the Melongenidae consists of two subfamilies:
- Subfamily Melongeninae Gill, 1871 (1854) - synonyms: Cassidulidae Gray, 1854 (inv.); Galeodidae Thiele, 1925 (inv.); Volemidae Winckworth, 1945; Heligmotomidae Adegoke, 1977
- Subfamily Echinofulgurinae Petuch, 1994
Genera
Genera in the family Melongenidae include:
- Brunneifusus Dekkers, 2018
- Hemifusus Swainson, 1840
- Lenifusus Dekkers, 2018
- Melongena Schumacher, 1817 - crown conchs
- Pugilina Schumacher, 1817
- Saginafusus Wenz, 1943
- † Sycostoma Cox, 1931
- Taphon H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853
- Volegalea Iredale, 1938
- Volema Röding, 1798
- Genera brought into synonymy
- Cassidulus Gray, 1854: synonym of Pugilina Schumacher, 1817
- Galeodes Röding, 1798 : synonym of Melongena Schumacher, 1817
- Semifusus Agassiz, 1846 synonym of Hemifusus Swainson, 1840
- Thalessa H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853: synonym of Volema Röding, 1798
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