Purpura: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Class
- Gastropoda
- Order
- Neogastropoda
- Family
- Muricidae
- Genus
- Purpura
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Purpura
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Purpura (gastropod)
Purpura is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Rapaninae of the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
Not to be confused with Purpura Jousseaume, 1880, a synonym of Bolinus Pusch, 1837
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