Pteropurpura uncinaria

Pteropurpura uncinaria
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Muricidae
Subfamily: Ocenebrinae
Genus: Pteropurpura
Subgenus: Poropteron
Species: P. uncinaria
Binomial name
Pteropurpura uncinaria
(Lamarck, 1822)
Synonyms[1]

Murex capensis Sowerby, 1841
Murex uncinarius Lamarck, 1822
Pteropurpura uncinaria

Pteropurpura uncinaria 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 uncinaria (Lamarck, 1822).  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=404003 on 24 April 2010.