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Pteropurpura

Pteropurpura
Pteropurpura festiva (Hinds, 1844)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Muricidae
Subfamily: Ocenebrinae
Genus: Pteropurpura
Jousseaume, 1880
Type species
Murex macropterus Deshayes, 1839
Synonyms[1]
  • Centrifuga Grant & Gale, 1931
  • Ceratostoma (Pteropurpura) Jousseaume, 1880
  • Murex (Pteropurpura) Jousseaume, 1880
  • Pteropurpura (Centrifuga) U. S. Grant & Gale, 1931
  • Pteropurpura (Pteropurpura) Jousseaume, 1880· accepted, alternate representation
  • Pterynotus (Pteropurpura) Jousseaume, 1880
  • Purpura (Centrifuga) U. S. Grant & Gale, 1931 ·
  • Shaskyus J. Q. Burch & G. B. Campbell, 1963

Pteropurpura, common name the stag shells, is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Ocenebrinae of the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]

  1. ^ a b Pteropurpura Jousseaume, 1880. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 2 July 2012.

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