Euprotomus

Genus of gastropods From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Euprotomus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Strombidae, the true conchs.[1]

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Euprotomus
Five views of a shell of Euprotomus aurisdianae
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Stromboidea
Family: Strombidae
Genus: Euprotomus
Gill, 1870
Type species
Strombus aurisdianae
Linnaeus, C., 1758
Species

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Synonyms[1]
  • Monodactylus Mörch, 1852 (Invalid: junior homonym of Monodactylus Lacépède, 1802 [Pisces])
  • Strombus (Euprotomus) Gill, 1870
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Species

Species within the genus Euprotomus include:

Species brought into synonymy
  • Euprotomus donnellyi Iredale, 1931: synonym of Euprotomus vomer (Röding, 1798)
  • Euprotomus kiwi (Bozzetti, L. & D.M. Sargent, 2011): synonym of Euprotomus vomer (Röding, 1798)

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