Colubraria

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Colubraria
Five views of a shell of Colubraria tortuosa (Reeve, 1844)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Buccinoidea
Family: Colubrariidae
Genus: Colubraria
Schumacher, 1817
Type species
Colubraria granulata
Schumacher, 1817
Synonyms[1]
  • Epidromus Mörch, 1852 (not available from Agassiz, 1846)
  • Obex Iredale, 1925
  • Roquesia Petuch, 2013
  • Triton (Epidromus) Mörch, 1852
Colubraria tortuosa (Reeve, 1844)

Colubraria is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Colubrariidae.[1] Members of this genus lack a radula and feed by sucking blood from fish.[2]

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