Pteropurpura trialata
| Pteropurpura trialata | |
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| Pteropurpura trialata laying eggs. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Genus: | Pteropurpura |
| Species: | P. trialata |
| Binomial name | |
| Pteropurpura trialata G. B. Sowerby II, 1834 | |
Pteropurpura trialata is a medium-sized species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the rock snails or murex snails.
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