Flexopteron
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| Flexopteron | |
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| Shell of Flexopteron akainakares (holotype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Subfamily: | Muricinae |
| Genus: | Flexopteron Shuto, 1969 |
| Type species | |
| † Flexopteron philippinensis Shuto, 1969 | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Flexopteron is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Muricinae of the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]
