| Favartia | |
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| shell of Favartia guamensis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Subfamily: | Muricopsinae |
| Genus: | Favartia Jousseaume, 1880[1] |
| Type species | |
| Murex breviculus G. B. Sowerby II, 1834 | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Favartia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[2] It is known for its crystalline shell.[citation needed]
- ^ Jousseaume F. P. (1880). Le Naturaliste 1(42): 335.
- ^ a b Favartia Jousseaume, 1880. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 27 November 2010.