Pleuroploca aurantiaca

Pleuroploca aurantiaca
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Buccinoidea
Family: Fasciolariidae
Genus: Pleuroploca
Species: P. aurantiaca
Binomial name
Pleuroploca aurantiaca
(Lamarck, 1816)
Synonyms[1]

Fasciolaria aurantiaca Lamarck, 1816
Fasciolaria purpurea Jonas, 1849

Pleuroploca aurantiaca is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fasciolariidae, the spindle snails, the tulip snails and their allies.[1]

Contents

Description

Distribution

References

  1. ^ a b Pleuroploca aurantiaca (Lamarck, 1816).  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=448492 on 18 April 2010.