Rapana | |
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A live but retracted individual of Rapana venosa showing the operculum, anterior end of the shell towards the upper left in this image. From the Black Sea, 2008 | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Family: | Muricidae |
Subfamily: | Rapaninae |
Genus: | Rapana H. C. F. Schumacher, 1817[1] |
Rapana is a genus of large predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the rock snails.