Poropteron Explained

Poropteron is a genus of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the subfamily Ocenebrinae of the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.^[1]

Species

• Poropteron debruini (Lorenz, 1989)
• Poropteron graagae (Coen, 1943)
• Poropteron multicornis (Houart, 1991)
• Poropteron quinquelobatus (G. B. Sowerby II, 1879)
• Poropteron transkeianus (Houart, 1991)
• Poropteron uncinarius (Lamarck, 1822)

External links

• Jousseaume, F. P. (1880). Division méthodique de la famille des Purpuridés. Le Naturaliste. 2(42): 335-338
• Jousseaume, F. (1882). Etude des Purpuridae et description d'espèces nouvelles. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie. ser. 3, 7: 314-348
• Barco, A.; Herbert, G.; Houart, R.; Fassio, G. & Oliverio, M. (2017). A molecular phylogenetic framework for the subfamily Ocenebrinae (Gastropoda, Muricidae). Zoologica Scripta. 46 (3): 322-335

Notes and References

1. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Poropteron Jousseaume, 1880. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=459516 on 2022-02-06