Poropteron
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| Poropteron | |
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| Shell of Poropteron transkeianus (paratype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Subfamily: | Ocenebrinae |
| Genus: | Poropteron Jousseaume, 1880 |
| Type species | |
| Murex uncinarius Lamarck, 1822 | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Poropteron is a genus of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the subfamily Ocenebrinae of the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]
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