Pteropurpura trialata

Pteropurpura trialata
Pteropurpura trialata laying eggs.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Muricidae
Genus: Pteropurpura
Species: P. trialata
Binomial name
Pteropurpura trialata
G. B. Sowerby II, 1834

Pteropurpura trialata is a medium-sized species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the rock snails or murex snails.

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