Phrontis (gastropod)
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| Phrontis | |
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| Apertural view of a shell of Phrontis pagoda (museum specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Buccinoidea |
| Family: | Nassariidae |
| Genus: | Phrontis H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853 |
| Type species | |
| Buccinum tiarula Kiener, 1841 | |
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Phrontis is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Nassariinae of the family Nassariidae, the Nassa mud snails or dog whelks.[1]
