Trophon

Genus of gastropods From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Trophon is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]

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Trophon
Trophon geversianus acordonada
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Muricidae
Subfamily: Trophoninae
Genus: Trophon
Montfort, 1810
Synonyms[1]
  • Fusus (Trophon) Montfort, 1810
  • Murex (Muricidea) Swainson, 1840
  • Murex (Trophon) Montfort, 1810 ·
  • Muricidea Swainson, 1840
  • Polyplex Perry, 1810
  • Stramonitrophon Powell,1951
  • Trophon (Stramonitrophon) Powell, 1951
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Species

The following species are recognised in the genus Trophon:[2]

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