Phyllocoma

Phyllocoma
Phyllocoma speciosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Muricidae
Subfamily:	Muricinae
Genus:	Phyllocoma Tapparone Canefri, 1881
Type species
Triton convolutus Broderip, 1833
Synonyms
Craspedotriton Dall, 1904 Epidromus (Phyllocoma) Tapparone Canefri, 1881 (original rank) Galfridus Iredale, 1924 Phyllocoma (Galfridus) Iredale, 1924· accepted, alternate representation Phyllocoma (Phyllocoma) Tapparone Canefri, 1881· accepted, alternate representation

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

Species

Species within the genus Phyllocoma include

• Phyllocoma convoluta (Broderip, 1833)
• Phyllocoma platyca Houart, 2001
• Phyllocoma scalariformis (Broderip, 1833)
• Phyllocoma speciosa (Angas, 1871)

.Synonyms:

• Phyllocoma neglecta Habe & Kosuge, 1971: synonym of Dermomurex neglectus (Habe & Kosuge, 1971) (original combination)
• Phyllocoma sculptilis (Reeve, 1846): synonym of Phrygiomurex sculptilis (Reeve, 1844)

References

External links

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• Tapparone Canefri, C. (1881). Glanures dans la faune malacologique de l'Ile Maurice. Catalogue de la famille des Muricidés. 100 pp., 2 pls.
• Iredale, T. (1924). Results from Roy Bell's molluscan collections. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 49(3): 179-278

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