Dermomurex

Genus of gastropods From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Dermomurex is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]

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Dermomurex
Apertural view of a shell of Dermomurex elizabethae
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Muricidae
Subfamily: Aspellinae
Genus: Dermomurex
Monterosato, 1890
Type species
Murex scalarinus Bivona-Bernardi, 1832
Species

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Synonyms[1]
  • Aspella (Dermomurex)
  • Dermomurex (Dermomurex) Monterosato, 1890
  • Dermomurex (Gracilimurex) Thiele, 1929
  • Dermomurex (Takia) Kuroda, 1953
  • Dermomurex (Trialatella) Berry, 1964
  • Dermomurex (Viator) E.H. Vokes, 1974
  • Hexachorda Cossmann, 1903
  • Murex (Gracilimurex) Thiele, 1929 (original rank)
  • Ocenebra (Takia) Kuroda, 1953
  • Poweria Monterosato, 1884 (Invalid: junior homonym of Poweria Bonaparte, 1840 [Pisces]; Dermomurex is a replacement name)
  • Takia Kuroda, 1953 (original rank)
  • Trialatella Berry, 1964
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Species

Species within the genus Dermomurex include:

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