Hirtomurex

Hirtomurex
Three views of a shell of Hirtomurex teramachii, with the operculum in place
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Muricidae
Subfamily: Coralliophilinae
Genus: Hirtomurex
Coen, 1922[1]
Type species
Fusus lamellosus Philippi, 1836
Synonyms[2]
  • Coralliophila (Hirtomurex) Coen, 1922
  • Pseudomurex (Hirtomurex) Coen, 1922 (original rank)

Hirtomurex is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Coralliophilinae, the coral snails, within the family Muricidae, the murex snails and rock snails.[2]

  1. ^ Coen (1922). Atti Soc. ital. Sci. nat., Milano 61(1): 69.
  2. ^ a b Hirtomurex Coen, 1922. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 10 July 2011.