>The most highly populated family is undoubtedly Turridae, with perhaps
>15% of the grand total, i think- although recently there have been
>proposals to split up the family:  Can anyone summarize these
>developments for all of us?
 
Time to change your catalogs and cabinets, because the Turridae has been
dismembered into several other families:
 
Drillidae
        Drillia
        Bellaspira
        Cerodrillia
        Kylix
        Splendrillia
        and others
Pseudomelatomidae
        Pseudomelatoma
Strictispiridae
        Strictispira
Turridae
        Antiplanes
        Cochlespira
        Compsodrillia
        Crassispira
        Gemmula
        Inodrillia
        Pilsbryspira
        and others
Conidae!
        Agathatoma
        Bathytoma
        Borsonella
        Clathurella
        Cryoturris
        Daphnella
        Glyphostoma
        Kurtziella
        Mangelia
        Oenopota
        Propebela
        and others
 
Just what we need, more cones.
 
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