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Paratrophon

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Paratrophon is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Pagodulinae of the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.

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Vinony's link graph records 6 inbound references to Paratrophon, and connects out to Mollusca, Neogastropoda and Animalia.

It is catalogued under the topic Muricidae.

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Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumMollusca
  3. ClassGastropoda
  4. OrderNeogastropoda
  5. FamilyMuricidae
Habitatmarine
Observations59

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Specimen records
9
Family
Muricidae
Collections
UCMP, DMNH, USNM, NMV, QM, NHMUK
Recorded in
New Zealand

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Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Muricidae
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Naturalis Biodiversity Center - ZMA.MOLL.28840 - Paratrophon quoyi (Reeve, 1846) - Muricidae - Mollusc shell.jpeg
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taxon name
Paratrophon
taxon rank
genus
Commons category
Paratrophon
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Paratrophon is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Pagodulinae of the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.

==Species== Species within the genus Paratrophon include: Paratrophon cheesemani (Hutton, 1882) Paratrophon dumasi (Vélain, 1877) Paratrophon patens (Hombron & Jacquinot, 1854) Paratrophon quoyi (Reeve, 1846) Species brought into synonymy: Paratrophon cheesmani [sic]: synonym of Paratrophon cheesemani (Hutton, 1882) Paratrophon exsculptus Powell, 1933: synonym of Paratrophon cheesemani (Hutton, 1882)

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