Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Agents Facet
3. Living Organisms (hierarchy name)
4. living organisms (entities)
5. Eukaryota (domain)
6. Animalia (kingdom)
7. Mollusca (phylum)
8. Gastropoda (class)

Narrower term/s

• Murex (genus)
• Bolinus (genus)[+]
  • Bolinus brandaris (species)
• Hexaplex (genus)[+]
  • Hexaplex trunculus (species)

Anotations

Scope note:

Family of marine snails containing around 1,600 living species and 1,200 fossil species. Distinguished by usually having an elongated or heavy shell that is elaborately spined or frilled. The family occurs throughout the world but mainly in the tropics.