Paratrophon dumasi

Paratrophon dumasi
Shell of Paratrophon dumasi (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Muricidae
Genus: Paratrophon
Species:
P. dumasi
Binomial name
Paratrophon dumasi
Synonyms[1]
  • Purpura dumasi Vélain, 1877
  • Purpura dumasi var. cincta Vélain, 1877
  • Purpura dumasi var. multistriata Vélain, 1877
  • Purpura dumasi var. semicostata Vélain, 1877

Paratrophon dumasi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]

Description

Distribution

This marine species occurs in Antarctic waters off the Islands Saint Paul & Amsterdam

References

  1. ^ a b Paratrophon dumasi (Vélain, 1877). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 24 April 2010.
  • Velain, C., 1877. Description des mollusques. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 6: 98-144
  • Fischer-Piette, E. & Beigbeder, J., 1943. Catalogue des types de gastéropodes marins conservés au laboratoire de Malacologie. II. - Tritonalia; Thyphis; Trophon. Bulletin du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 2° série, 15(5): 324-328


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