Pterochelus
Sign in to savePterochelus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
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- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderNeogastropoda
- FamilyMuricidae
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Pterochelus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
==Species== Species within the genus Pterochelus include: Pterochelus acanthopterus (Lamarck, 1816) Pterochelus akation (Vokes, 1993) Pterochelus ariomus (Clench & Farfante, 1945) Pterochelus duffusi Iredale, 1936 Pterochelus triformis (Reeve, 1845) Pterochelus undosus (Vokes, 1993) Pterochelus westralis (Ponder & Wilson, 1973)
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