Trophoninae
Appearance
Trophoninae | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
Family: | Muricidae |
Subfamily: | Trophoninae Cossmann, 1903 |
Genera | |
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Trophoninae is a subfamily of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the rock snails and their allies.[1]
Shell description
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Genera
[edit]According to the World Register of Marine Species, genera within the subfamily Trophoninae include:[2]
- Afritrophon Tomlin, 1947
- Anatrophon Iredale, 1929
- Benthoxystus Iredale, 1929
- Conchatalos Houart, 1995
- Coronium Simone, 1996
- Enatimene Iredale, 1929
- Fuegotrophon Powell, 1951
- Gemixystus Iredale, 1929
- Leptotrophon Houart, 1995
- Litozamia Iredale, 1929
- Minortrophon Finlay, 1926
- Nipponotrophon Kuroda & Habe, 1971
- Nodulotrophon Habe & Ito, 1965
- Scabrotrophon McLean, 1996
- Tromina Dall, 1918
- Trophon Montfort, 1810
- Warenia Houart, Vermeij & Wiedrick, 2019
- Xenotrophon Iredale, 1929
References
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- ^ a b MolluscaBase (2019). MolluscaBase. Trophoninae Cossmann, 1903. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=397226 on 2019-11-07
- ^ WoRMS : Trophoninae; accessed : 15 September 2010