Pteropurpura uncinaria

Pteropurpura uncinaria
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Muricidae
Subfamily: Ocenebrinae
Genus: Pteropurpura
Subgenus: Poropteron
Species: P. (Poropteron) uncinaria
Binomial name
Pteropurpura (Poropteron) uncinaria
(Lamarck, 1822)
Synonyms[1]
  • Murex capensis Sowerby, 1841
  • Murex uncinarius Lamarck, 1822
  • Pteropurpura capensis (Sowerby II, 1841)
  • Pteropurpura uncinaria

Pteropurpura (Poropteron) uncinaria is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]

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