Benthoxystus

Benthoxystus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.^[1]

Benthoxystus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Muricidae
Subfamily:	Trophoninae
Genus:	Benthoxystus Iredale, 1929
Type species
Trophon columnarius Hedley & May, 1908

Benthoxystus petterdi

Species

Species within the genus Benthoxystus include:

• Benthoxystus columnarius (Hedley & May, 1908)^[2]
• Benthoxystus petterdi (Brazier in Crosse, 1870)^[3]