Purpuraturris
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| Purpuraturris | |
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| Shell of Purpuraturris cryptorrhaphe (specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Turridae |
| Genus: | Purpuraturris K. Chase, Watkins, Safavi-Hemami & B. M. Olivera, 2022 |
| Type species | |
| Pleurotoma cryptorrhaphe G. B. Sowerby I, 1825 | |
| Species[1] | |
Purpuraturris is a taxonomic family name for a number of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Turridae.[1]
