Echinophoria

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Echinophoria
Shell of Echinophoria coronadoi (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Tonnoidea
Family: Cassidae
Genus: Echinophoria
Sacco, 1890
Type species
Buccinum intermedium Brocchi, 1814
Synonyms[1]
  • Bathygalea Woodring & Olsson, 1957
  • Bathygalea (Bathygalea) Woodring & Olsson, 1957
  • Cassis (Echinophoria) Sacco, 1890
  • Euspinacassis Finlay, 1926
  • Phalium (Echinophoria) Sacco, 1890
  • Trachydolium Howe, 1926

Echinophoria is a genus of large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cassidae, the helmet snails and bonnet snails.[1]

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