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]
| Poropteron | |
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| Shell of Poropteron transkeianus (paratype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification 
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| 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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Species edit
- Poropteron debruini (Lorenz, 1989)
- Poropteron graagae (Coen, 1943)
- Poropteron multicornis (Houart, 1991)
- Poropteron quinquelobatus (G. B. Sowerby II, 1879)
- Poropteron transkeianus (Houart, 1991)
- Poropteron uncinarius (Lamarck, 1822)
References edit
- ^ a b MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Poropteron Jousseaume, 1880. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=459516 on 2022-02-06
External links edit
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- Jousseaume, F. P. (1880). Division méthodique de la famille des Purpuridés. Le Naturaliste. 2(42): 335-338
- Jousseaume, F. (1882). Etude des Purpuridae et description d'espèces nouvelles. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie. ser. 3, 7: 314-348
- Barco, A.; Herbert, G.; Houart, R.; Fassio, G. & Oliverio, M. (2017). A molecular phylogenetic framework for the subfamily Ocenebrinae (Gastropoda, Muricidae). Zoologica Scripta. 46 (3): 322-335
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