| Hirtomurex | |
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| Three views of a shell of Hirtomurex teramachii, with the operculum in place | |
Scientific classification 
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| 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] | |
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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]
- ^ Coen (1922). Atti Soc. ital. Sci. nat., Milano 61(1): 69.
- ^ a b Hirtomurex Coen, 1922. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 10 July 2011.