Actinotrophon
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| Actinotrophon | |
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| Shell of Actinotrophon tenuis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Subfamily: | Pagodulinae |
| Genus: | Actinotrophon Dall, 1902 |
| Type species | |
| Trophon (Boreotrophon) actinophorus Dall, 1889 | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Actinotrophon is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Pagodulinae of the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]
A group which perhaps deserves distinction is Actinotrophon, based on Boreotrophon actinophorus Dall, 1889 in which with the structure of the thin Borvotrophon with long coronating spines is united as a feature, not elsewhere noted in the genus, of successive canals, so curved that the projecting old ones, recurving from the siphonal fasciole form a whorl of hollow split spines, diverging from a deep umbilical pit, as in some murices. In Murex, however, the siphonal canal is closed and the aperture has a projecting callous margin. [2]
