Nipponotrophon
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| Nipponotrophon | |
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| Shell of Nipponotrophon makassarensis (holotype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Subfamily: | Trophoninae |
| Genus: | Nipponotrophon Kuroda & Habe, 1971 |
| Type species | |
| Boreotrophon echinus Dall, 1918 | |
Nipponotrophon is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Trophoninae of the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]
