Trophon plicatus

Trophon plicatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Muricidae
Subfamily: Trophoninae
Genus: Trophon
Species: T. plicatus
Binomial name
Trophon plicatus
(Lightfoot, 1786)
Synonyms[1]

Buccinum laciniatus sensu Martyn Dillwyn, 1817
Murex lamellosus Gmelin, 1791
Murex plicatus Lightfoot, 1786
Polyplex gracilis Perry, 1811
Trophon antarcticus Philippi, 1868

Trophon plicatus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]

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