Pteropurpura esycha

Pteropurpura esycha
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. esycha
Binomial name
Pteropurpura esycha
(Dall, 1925)
Synonyms[1]

Murex esychus Dall, 1925

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

Contents

Description

Distribution

References

  1. ^ a b Pteropurpura esycha (Dall, 1925).  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=403980 on 24 April 2010.