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Calotrophon
Sign in to saveCalotrophon is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Calotrophon is referenced by 23 other articles, and connects out to Mollusca, Neogastropoda and Animalia.
Vinony files it under Gastropod genera without authority reference and Muricidae.
Its subject is documented across 8 Wikipedia language editions.
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GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderNeogastropoda
- FamilyMuricidae
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- Specimen records
- 145
- With media
- 10
- Family
- Muricidae
- Collections
- UF, RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE
- Recorded in
- United States
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Calotrophon is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
==Species== Species within the genus Calotrophon include: Calotrophon andrewsi Vokes, 1976 Calotrophon carnicolor (Clench & Pérez Farfante, 1945) Calotrophon eugeniae (Vokes, 1992) Calotrophon gatunensis (Brown & Pilsbry, 1911) Calotrophon hemmenorum (Houart & Mühlhäusser, 1990) Calotrophon hystrix Garcia, 2006 Calotrophon ostrearum (Conrad, 1846) Calotrophon turritus (Dall, 1919) Calotrophon velero (Vokes, 1970) Species brought into synonymy : Calotrophon bristolae Hertlein & Strong, 1951: synonym of Calotrophon turritus (Dall, 1919) Calotrophon emilyae Petuch, 1988 †: synonym of Calotrophon ostrearum (Conrad, 1846)
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