Pteropurpura macroptera

Pteropurpura macroptera
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. macroptera
Binomial name
Pteropurpura macroptera
(Deshayes, 1839)
Synonyms[1]

Murex macropterus Deshayes, 1839
Murex petri Dall, 1900
Murex tremperi Dall, 1910
Pteronotus carpenteri Dall, 1899
Pteronotus carpenteri var. alba Berry, 1908

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

References

  1. 1 2 Pteropurpura macroptera (Deshayes, 1839).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 24 April 2010.


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