Acanthotrophon Explained

Acanthotrophon is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.

Species

Species within the genus Acanthotrophon include:

• † Acanthotrophon aquensis Lozouet, 1999
• † Acanthotrophon ascensus (E. H. Vokes, 1976) †
• † Acanthotrophon aturi (Deshayes, 1865)
• Acanthotrophon carduus (Broderip, 1833)
• Acanthotrophon latispinosus Garrigues & Lamy, 2019
• Acanthotrophon sentus Berry, 1969
• Acanthotrophon sorenseni (Hertlein & Strong, 1951)
• Acanthotrophon striatoides Vokes, 1980
• † Acanthotrophon striatus (Gabb, 1873)

References

• Lozouet, P., 1999. Nouvelles espèces de gastéropodes (Mollusca: Gastropoda) de l'Oligocène et du Miocène inférieur d'Aquitaine (sud-ouest de la France). Partie 2. Cossmanniana 6(1-2): 1-68
• Ramírez, R.; Paredes, C.; Arenas, J. (2003). Moluscos del Perú. Revista de Biología Tropical. 51(supplement 3): 225-284.
• Merle, D., Garrigues, B. & Pointier, J.P. (2022). Fossil and Recent Muricidae of the world: Part Muricopsinae. Harxheim: ConchBooks. 528 pp.

External links

• L. G.; Strong, A. M. (1951). Eastern Pacific expeditions of the New York Zoological Society. XLIII. Mollusks from the west coast of Mexico and Central America. Part X. Zoologica. 36(2): 67-120, 11 pls
• Vokes E.H. (1980). Review of the muricid genus Acanthotrophon (Mollusca: Gastropoda). The Veliger. 23: 10-14, 2 pls