| Boreotrophon candelabrum | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Subfamily: | Trophoninae |
| Genus: | Boreotrophon |
| Species: | B. candelabrum |
| Binomial name | |
| Boreotrophon candelabrum (Reeve, 1848) |
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Boreotrophon paucicostatus Habe & Ito, 1965 |
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Boreotrophon candelabrum 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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B. candelabrum have been known to attack and eat sea scallops by drilling into them.[2]