Pteropurpura uncinaria

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

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. (Poropteron) uncinaria
Binomial name
Pteropurpura (Poropteron) uncinaria
(Lamarck, 1822)
Synonyms[1]
  • Murex capensis Sowerby, 1841
  • Murex uncinarius Lamarck, 1822
  • Pteropurpura capensis (Sowerby II, 1841)
  • Pteropurpura uncinaria

References
  1. Pteropurpura uncinaria (Lamarck, 1822). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 24 April 2010.
  • Kilburn, R.N. & Rippey, E. (1982) Sea Shells of Southern Africa. Macmillan South Africa, Johannesburg, xi + 249 pp. page(s): 82
  • Petit R.E. (2009) George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa 2189: 1–218
  • Houart R., Kilburn R.N. & Marais A.P. (2010) Muricidae. pp. 176–270, in: Marais A.P. & Seccombe A.D. (eds), Identification guide to the seashells of South Africa. Volume 1. Groenkloof: Centre for Molluscan Studies. 376 pp.


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