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Phos
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This article is about the snail genus. For concepts which pluralize to "phos", see PHO. For fictional character Phosphophyllite, see Land of the Lustrous.
Phos is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Nassariidae.[2]
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Phos muriculatus shell | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Buccinoidea |
Family: | Nassariidae |
Genus: | Phos Montfort, 1810[1] |
Type species | |
Murex senticosus Linnaeus, 1758 | |
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