Acanthina | |
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A hermit-crabbed shell of Acanthina punctulata | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
Family: | Muricidae |
Subfamily: | Ocenebrinae |
Genus: | Acanthina Fischer von Waldheim, 1807 |
Synonyms[1] | |
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Acanthina, common name the unicorn snails, is a genus of small predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. [1]
These snails live in the intertidal zone.
Species within the genus Acanthina include: