Pteropurpura quinquelobata

Pteropurpura quinquelobata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Muricidae
Subfamily: Ocenebrinae
Genus: Pteropurpura
Subgenus: Poropteron
Species: P. quinquelobata
Binomial name
Pteropurpura quinquelobata
(Sowerby, 1879)
Synonyms[1]

Murex quinquelobatus Sowerby, 1879
Pteropurpura (Poropteron) joostei Lorenz, 1990

Pteropurpura quinquelobata 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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