| Pleuroploca | |
|---|---|
| Pleuroploca trapezium (Linnaeus, 1758) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Buccinoidea |
| Family: | Fasciolariidae |
| Genus: | Pleuroploca P. Fischer, 1884[1] |
Pleuroploca is a genus of very large predatory sea snails with an operculum, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Fasciolariidae, which includes the spindle shells, the tulip shells and other allied genera.
According to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), the following species with valid names are included within the genus Pleuroplaca : [2]
A well known species which was formerly within the genus Pleuroploca is:[3]