Poirieria

Poirieria
Apertural view of a shell of Poirieria zelandica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Muricidae
Subfamily: Muricinae
Genus: Poirieria
Jousseaume, 1880
Species

See text.

Synonyms[1]
  • Bathymurex Clench & Farfante, 1945
  • Dallimurex Rehder, 1946
  • Paziella Jousseaume, 1880

Poirieria is a genus of large predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Muricidae, the rock snails.[1]

Species

Species within the genus Poirieria include:

Synymized species 

References

  1. 1 2 Houart, R.; Gofas, S. (2010). Poirieria Jousseaume, 1880. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138203 on 2011-04-2
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