Sipho is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.[1]

Sipho
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Sipho

The name of the genus Sipho Mörch, 1852 [ex Klein] has become invalid and is a synonym of Colus Röding, 1798. A previous use of the genus name Sipho T. Brown, 1827 is now a synonym of Puncturella [2]

All the species that used to belong to the genus Sipho have become synonyms of other species in the family Buccinidae.

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