{{Short description|Family of sea snails}} {{About|Harpidae|a genus in the family Harpidae|Harpa}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Harpidae | image = Harpidae sp.jpg | image_caption = A live individual of ''Harpa major'' | authority = Bronn, 1849<ref>{{in lang|de}} Bronn H. G. 1849. ''Index Palaeontologicus: Oder Übersicht der bis jetzt bekannten fossilen Organismen'', II, Abt. B, Enumerator paleontologicus. Schweizerbart, Stuttgart, 972 pp. Harpidae is on the page 469.</ref> | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision = ''See text'' }}
The '''Harpidae''', known as the '''harp snails''', are the members of a taxonomic family of large predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks.<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Bouchet, P. |author2=Rocroi, J.-P. | year = 2005 | date= | title = Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families | journal = Malacologia | volume =47 | issue = 1-2 | pages = | issn = | doi = }}</ref>
This family is temporarily classified in the superfamily Neogastropoda incertae sedis. <ref name="Worms">MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Harpidae Bronn, 1849. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=196294 on 2024-09-10</ref>
== Subfamilies and genera == This family consists of the following subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005): * Harpinae <small>Bronn, 1849</small> * † Cryptochordinae <small>Korobkov, 1955</small> * Moruminae <small>Hughes & Emerson, 1987</small><ref>Hughes & Emerson. (1 April) 1987. The Veliger, 29(4):357.</ref>
Genera in the family Harpidae include: ; Genus † ''Asiaharpa'' <small>Raven, 2021</small> ;Harpinae *''Austroharpa'' <small>Finlay, 1931</small> * † ''Eocithara'' <small>P. Fischer, 1883</small> *''Harpa'' <small>Röding, 1798</small> - type genus of the family Harpidae * ''Harpalis'' <small>Link, 1807</small>: synonym of ''Harpa'' Röding, 1798 * ''Palamharpa'' <small>Iredale, 1931</small>: synonym of ''Austroharpa'' Finlay, 1931
;† Cryptochordinae * † ''Cryptochorda'' <small>Mörch, 1858</small> - type genus of the subfamily Cryptochordinae
; Moruminae *''Morum'' <small>Röding, 1798</small> - type genus of the subfamily Moruminae * ''Cancellomorum'' Emerson & Old, 1963: synonym of ''Morum'' Röding, 1798 * ''Herculea'' H. Adams & A. Adams, 1858: synonym of ''Morum'' (Herculea) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1858 represented as ''Morum'' Röding, 1798 * ''Lambidium'' Link, 1807: synonym of ''Morum'' Röding, 1798 * ''Onimusiro'' Kuroda, Habe & Oyama, 1971: synonym of ''Morum'' Röding, 1798 * ''Oniscia'' G. B. Sowerby I, 1825: synonym of ''Morum'' Röding, 1798 * ''Oniscidia'' Mörch, 1852: synonym of ''Morum (Oniscidia)'' Mörch, 1852 represented as ''Morum'' Röding, 1798 * ''Pulchroniscia'' Garrard, 1961: synonym of ''Morum (Oniscidia)'' Mörch, 1852 represented as ''Morum'' Röding, 1798
<gallery style="text-align:center;" mode="packed"> Image:Cryptochorda stromboides 01.JPG|''Cryptochorda stromboides'' Image:Harpa davidis 01.JPG|''Harpa davidis'' Image:Morumcancellatum.jpg|''Morum cancellatum'' Image:Harpidae sp.jpg|Un harpidae vivant. </gallery>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== {{Commons category|Harpidae}} * [https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/pp533 Ladd, H.S. (1977). Cenozoic fossil mollusks from western Pacific islands; Gastropods (Eratoidae through Harpidae). U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper. 533: i–iv, 1–84, pls 1–23] {{PD-notice}}
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Category:Harpidae Category:Gastropod families Category:Taxa named by Heinrich Georg Bronn
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