| Pteropurpura | |
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| Pteropurpura festiva (Hinds, 1844) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Subfamily: | Ocenebrinae |
| Genus: | Pteropurpura Jousseaume, 1880 |
| Type species | |
| Murex macropterus Deshayes, 1839 | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Pteropurpura, common name the stag shells, is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Ocenebrinae of the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]
- ^ a b Pteropurpura Jousseaume, 1880. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 2 July 2012.