Phorcus
Genus of gastropods
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Phorcus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Cantharidinae of the family Trochidae, the top snails.[1]
| Phorcus | |
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| Phorcus mutabilis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Trochida |
| Family: | Trochidae |
| Subfamily: | Cantharidinae |
| Genus: | Phorcus Risso, 1826 |
| Type species | |
| Trochus margaritaceus Risso, A., 1826 | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Distribution
These marine species are algal grazers in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea.
Species
Species within the genus Phorcus include:
- Phorcus articulatus (Lamarck, 1822)
- Phorcus atratus (Wood, 1828)
- † Phorcus burgadoi Martín-González, 2018
- † Phorcus gallicophorcus Landau, Van Dingenen & Ceulemans, 2017
- Phorcus lineatus (da Costa, 1778)
- Phorcus mariae Templado & Rolán, 2012
- Phorcus mutabilis (Philippi, 1846)[2]
- Phorcus punctulatus (Lamarck, 1822)
- Phorcus richardi (Payraudeau, 1826)[3]
- Phorcus sauciatus (Koch, 1845)
- Phorcus turbinatus (Born, 1780)
- Species brought into synonymy
- Phorcus margaritaceus Risso, 1826: synonym of Phorcus richardi (Payraudeau, 1826)
- Phorcus semigranosus A. Adams, 1851: synonym of Chlorostoma semigranosum A. Adams, 1851
