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]

Actinotrophon
Shell of Actinotrophon tenuis
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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
Synonyms[1]
  • Boreotrophon (Actinotrophon) Dall, 1902 (original rank)
  • Poirieria (Actinotrophon) Dall, 1889

Description

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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

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Species within the genus Actinotrophon include:

Species brought into synonymy

References

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  1. ^ 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
  2. ^ 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   This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
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