Pleuroploca

Pleuroploca
Five views of a shell of Pleuroploca trapezium (Linnaeus, 1758)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda

Superfamily: Buccinoidea
Family: Fasciolariidae
Subfamily: Fasciolariinae
Genus: Pleuroploca
P. Fischer, 1884[1]
Type species
Murex trapezium Linnaeus, 1758
Synonyms[2]

Fasciolaria (Pleuroploca) P. Fischer, 1884

Pleuroploca is a genus of very large predatory sea snails with an operculum, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Fasciolariidae, which includes the spindle shells, the tulip shells and other allied genera. [2]

Species

According to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), the following species with valid names are included within the genus Pleuroplaca : [3]

Species brought into synonymy

References

  1. Fischer P. (1884). Man. Conch.: 616.
  2. 1 2 Bouchet, P. (2012). Pleuroploca P. Fischer, 1884. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=204742 on 2012-08-25
  3. WoRMS : Pleuroplaca; accession date : 10 September 2010


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