Biology:Pterotyphis eos

Pterotyphis eos eos
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Muricidae
Subfamily:	Ocenebrinae
Genus:	Pterotyphis
Species:	P. eos
Binomial name
Pterotyphis eos (Hutton, 1873)
Synonyms
Murex eos Hutton, 1873 Murex angasi eos Suter, 1913

Pterotyphis eos is a species of small predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.

Subspecies

A subspecies of this species has been named:

• Pterotyphis eos paupereques (Powell A W B, 1974)

References

• Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN:0-00-216906-1

Wikidata ☰ Q7256965 entry