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Pterynotus
Genus of gastropods / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pterynotus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Muricinae of the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]
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Pterynotus | |
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Pterynotus alatus | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
Family: | Muricidae |
Subfamily: | Muricinae |
Genus: | Pterynotus Swainson, 1833 |
Type species | |
Murex pinnatus Swainson, 1822 | |
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