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Siphonochelus
Genus of gastropods / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Siphonochelus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]
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Shell of Siphonochelus aethomorpha (holotype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
Family: | Muricidae |
Subfamily: | Typhinae |
Genus: | Siphonochelus Jousseaume, 1880 |
Type species | |
Typhis arcuatus Hinds, 1843 | |
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It was first described by Félix Pierre Jousseaume in 1880.