Neorapana

Neorapana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Muricidae
Subfamily: Rapaninae
Genus: Neorapana
A. H. Cooke, 1918[1]

Neorapana is a genus of large predatory tropical sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the rock snails. [2]

Species

Species within the genus Neorapana include:

References

  1. Cooke A. H. (1918). "On the radula of the genus Acanthina, G. Fischer". Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 13: 6-11. page 7 and page 11.
  2. WoRMS (2010). Neorapana Cooke, 1918. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=405033 on 2012-06-11


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