Calotrophon
Genus of gastropods
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Calotrophon is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]
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| Shell of Calotrophon carnicolor (specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Subfamily: | Muricinae |
| Genus: | Calotrophon Hertlein & Strong, 1951 |
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Species
Species within the genus Calotrophon include:
- Calotrophon andrewsi Vokes, 1976[2]
- Calotrophon carnicolor (Clench & Pérez Farfante, 1945)
- Calotrophon eugeniae (Vokes, 1992)
- Calotrophon gatunensis (Brown & Pilsbry, 1911)
- Calotrophon hemmenorum (Houart & Mühlhäusser, 1990)
- Calotrophon hystrix Garcia, 2006[3]
- Calotrophon ostrearum (Conrad, 1846)[4]
- Calotrophon turritus (Dall, 1919)[5]
- 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)
