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]
  • Murex expansus G.B. Sowerby II, 1860
  • Murex plorator Adams & Reeve, 1845
  • Pteronotus brachypteron A. Adams, 1863
  • Pteropurpura (Pteropurpura) expansa (G.B. Sowerby II, 1860)

Pteropurpura plorator is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]

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