Glaphyrina

Glaphyrina
Temporal range: Miocene to Recent
Glaphyrina caudata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Buccinoidea
Family: Buccinidae
Genus: Glaphyrina
Finlay, 1927[1]
Type species
Fusus vulpicolor G.B. Sowerby II, 1880
Species

See text

Glaphyrina is a genus of large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusc in the family Buccinidae, the whelks.

Species

Species in the genus Glaphyrina include:[2]

References

  1. Finlay H. J. (1927). Trans. New Zealand Inst. 57: 414.
  2. Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
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