Pteropurpura plorator

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

Pteropurpura plorator
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. plorator
Binomial name
Pteropurpura plorator
(Adams & Reeve, 1845)
Synonyms[1]
  • Murex expansus G.B. Sowerby II, 1860
  • Murex plorator Adams & Reeve, 1845
  • Pteronotus brachypteron A. Adams, 1863
  • Pteropurpura (Pteropurpura) expansa (G.B. Sowerby II, 1860)

References
  1. Pteropurpura plorator (Adams & Reeve, 1845). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 2 July 2012.
  • Petit R.E. (2009) George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa 2189: 1–218
  • Houart R. (2011) Ocenebra, Pteropurpura, and Ocinebrellus (Gastropoda: Muricidae: Ocenebrinae) in the northwestern Pacific. American Conchologist 39(4): 12–22.


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