Pteropurpura plorator

Pteropurpura plorator
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Muricidae
Genus:	Pteropurpura
Species:	P. plorator
Binomial name
	Pteropurpura plorator; (Adams & Reeve, 1845)
Synonyms
	Murex expansusG.B. Sowerby II, 1860; Murex ploratorAdams & Reeve, 1845; Pteronotus brachypteronA. Adams, 1863; Pteropurpura (Pteropurpura) expansa(G.B. Sowerby II, 1860);

Last updated October 05, 2025

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

References

1 2 Pteropurpura plorator (Adams & Reeve, 1845) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 2 July 2012.

Petit R.E. (2009) George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa 2189: 1–218
Houart R. (2011) Ocenebra, Pteropurpura, and Ocinebrellus (Gastropoda: Muricidae: Ocenebrinae) in the northwestern Pacific. American Conchologist 39(4): 12–22.

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[WoRMS-1] 1 2 Pteropurpura plorator (Adams & Reeve, 1845) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 2 July 2012.

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