Harpago

For the Roman naval boarding bridge, see Corvus (boarding device). For the Roman naval grapnel, see Harpax.

Harpago Temporal range: Quaternary–Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ [1]
Five views of a shell of Harpago chiragra
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Strombidae
Genus:	Harpago Mörch, 1852
Type species
Lambis harpago Röding, 1798

Harpago is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Strombidae, the true conchs.[2]

Harpago ('grappling iron') is also a term used in insect morphology for the distal end of a genital clasper.

Species

Species within the genus Harpago include:

Image	Scientific name	Distribution
	Harpago arthriticus (Röding, 1798)	Indian Ocean along the Aldabra Atoll, Kenya, Madagascar, the Maldives, the Mascarene Basin, Mauritius, Mozambique, Réunion, the Seychelles and Tanzania
	Harpago chiragra (Linnaeus, 1758)	Indo-Pacific, ranging from the Aldabra Atoll, Chagos, Mauritius, Mozambique, Sri Lanka and the Gulf of Bengal to eastern Polynesia

References

1. Sepkoski, J. J. Jr. (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363: 95.
2. Harpago Mörch, 1852. WoRMS (2009). Harpago. Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=531658 on 23 April 2011 .