Taurasia
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| Taurasia | |
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| Shell of Taurasia striata (syntype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Subfamily: | Rapaninae |
| Genus: | Taurasia Bellardi, 1882 |
| Type species | |
| † Purpura subfusiformis d'Orbigny, 1852 | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Taurasia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Rapaninae of the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]
