Actinotrophon
| Actinotrophon | |
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| Shell of Actinotrophon tenuis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Subfamily: | Pagodulinae |
| Genus: | Actinotrophon Dall, 1902 |
| Type species | |
| Trophon (Boreotrophon) actinophorus Dall, 1889 | |
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Actinotrophon is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Pagodulinae of the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]
Description
A group which perhaps deserves distinction is Actinotrophon, based on Boreotrophon actinophorus Dall, 1889 in which with the structure of the thin Borvotrophon with long coronating spines is united as a feature, not elsewhere noted in the genus, of successive canals, so curved that the projecting old ones, recurving from the siphonal fasciole form a whorl of hollow split spines, diverging from a deep umbilical pit, as in some murices. In Murex, however, the siphonal canal is closed and the aperture has a projecting callous margin. [2]
Species
Species within the genus Actinotrophon include:
- Actinotrophon actinophorus (Dall, 1889)
- Actinotrophon fragilis (Houart, 1996)
- Actinotrophon tenuis (Houart, 2001)
- Species brought into synonymy
- Actinotrophon planispina (E. A. Smith, 1892): synonym of Enixotrophon planispinus (E. A. Smith, 1906)
References
- ^ a b MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Actinotrophon Dall, 1902. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=564700 on 2020-05-06
- ^ Dall, W. H. (1902). Illustrations and descriptions of new, unfigured, or imperfectly known shells, chiefly American in the U. S. National Museum. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 24 (1264): 499-566, pls 27-40
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