Poropteron | |
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Shell of Poropteron transkeianus (paratype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
Family: | Muricidae |
Subfamily: | Ocenebrinae |
Genus: | Poropteron Jousseaume, 1880 |
Type species | |
Murex uncinarius Lamarck, 1822 | |
Synonyms[1] | |
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Poropteron is a genus of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the subfamily Ocenebrinae of the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]