Pteropurpura plorator
| Pteropurpura plorator | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Subfamily: | Ocenebrinae |
| Genus: | Pteropurpura |
| Subgenus: | Pteropurpura |
| Species: | P. plorator |
| Binomial name | |
| Pteropurpura plorator (Adams & Reeve, 1845) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Pteropurpura plorator is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]
References
- 1 2 Pteropurpura plorator (Adams & Reeve, 1845). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 2 July 2012.
- Petit R.E. (2009) George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa 2189: 1–218
- Houart R. (2011) Ocenebra, Pteropurpura, and Ocinebrellus (Gastropoda: Muricidae: Ocenebrinae) in the northwestern Pacific. American Conchologist 39(4): 12-22.
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