Rapana

Rapana
A live Rapana venosa showing the operculum.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Muricidae
Subfamily: Rapaninae
Genus: Rapana
H. C. F. Schumacher, 1817[1]

Rapana is a genus of large predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the rock snails.

Species

Species within the genus Rapana include:

References

  1. ^ Schumacher H. C. F. (1817). Ess. Vers test. 65: 214.