Paratrophon cheesemani

Paratrophon cheesemani
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Muricidae
Genus:	Paratrophon
Species:	P. cheesemani
Binomial name
Paratrophon cheesemani (Hutton, 1882)
Synonyms [1]
Paratrophon cheesemani cheesemani(Hutton, 1882) Paratrophon cheesemani exsculptusPowell, 1933 Paratrophon cheesmani [sic] (misspelling) Paratrophon exsculptusPowell,1933 Polytropa cheesemaniHutton, 1882

Paratrophon cheesemani is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. ^[1]

Distribution

This marine species is endemic to New Zealand

References

1. Paratrophon cheesemani (Hutton, 1882) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 24 April 2010.

External links

• Spencer H.G., Willan R.C., Marshall B.A. & Murray T.J. (2011). Checklist of the Recent Mollusca Recorded from the New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone
• Bruce A. Marshall, Molluscan and brachiopod taxa introduced by F. W. Hutton in The New Zealand journal of science; Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Volume 25, Issue 4, 1995