Flexopteron

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

Flexopteron
Shell of Flexopteron akainakares (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Muricidae
Subfamily:	Muricinae
Genus:	Flexopteron Shuto, 1969
Type species
† Flexopteron philippinensis Shuto, 1969
Synonyms[1]
Paziella (Flexopteron) Shuto, 1969 Poirieria (Flexopteron) Shuto, 1969

Species

Species within the genus Flexopteron include:

• Flexopteron akainakares Houart & Héros, 2015
• Flexopteron oliverai (Kosuge, 1984)
• † Flexopteron philippinensis Shuto, 1969
• Flexopteron poppei (Houart, 1993)
• Flexopteron primanova (Houart, 1985)