Biology:Purpuraturris

Short description: Genus of gastropods

Purpuraturris
Shell of Purpuraturris cryptorrhaphe (specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Turridae
Genus:	Purpuraturris K. Chase, Watkins, Safavi-Hemami & B. M. Olivera, 2022
Type species
Pleurotoma cryptorrhaphe G. B. Sowerby I, 1825
Species
See text

Purpuraturris is a taxonomic family name for a number of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Turridae.

Species

• Purpuraturris omnipurpurata Purpuraturris cristata
• (Vera-Peláez, Vega-Luz & Lozano-Francisco, 2000) (G. B. Sowerby I, 1825)
• (Vera-Peláez, Vega-Luz & Lozano-Francisco, 2000) Purpuraturris tanyspira
• Purpuraturris nadensis (Kilburn, 1975)
• Purpuraturris cryptorraphe (M. Azuma, 1973)
• (Lamarck, 1816) Purpuraturris undosa

External links

• Chase, K., Watkins, M., Safavi-Hemami, H. & Olivera, B. M. (2022). Integrating venom peptide libraries into a phylogenetic and broader biological framework. Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences. 9: 784419

Wikidata ☰ Q115801405 entry