Aporrhais

Aporrhais
Temporal range: Triassic - Recent
Five views of a shell of Aporrhais perpelicani
Fossil shell of Aporrhais uttingeriana from Pliocene of Italy
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha

Superfamily: Stromboidea
Family: Aporrhaidae
Genus: Aporrhais
Costa, 1778
Type species
Aporrhais quadrifidus Da Costa, 1778
Synonyms

Chenopus Philippi, 1836

Aporrhais is a genus of medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Aporrhaidae and the superfamily Stromboidea. [1]

The genus is known from the Triassic to the Recent periods (age range: 205.6 to 0.0 million years ago). Fossils of species within this genus have been found all over the world. [2][3]

Species

This genus contains the following extant species:

Extinct species

Extinct species within this genus include: [2]


Species brought into synonymy

References

  1. WoRMS : Aporrhais; accessed : 28 October 2010
  2. 1 2 Fossilworks
  3. (in Czech) Pek I., Vašíček Z., Roček Z., Hajn. V. & Mikuláš R.: Základy zoopaleontologie. - Olomouc, 1996. 264 pp., ISBN 80-7067-599-3.
  4. Stromboidea
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