Poropteron

Poropteron is a genus of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the subfamily Ocenebrinae of the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.^[1]

Poropteron
Shell of Poropteron transkeianus (paratype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Muricidae
Subfamily:	Ocenebrinae
Genus:	Poropteron Jousseaume, 1880
Type species
Murex uncinarius Lamarck, 1822
Synonyms[1]
Murex (Poropteron) Jousseaume, 1880 Pteropurpura (Poropteron) Jousseaume, 1880

Species

• Poropteron debruini (Lorenz, 1989)
• Poropteron graagae (Coen, 1943)
• Poropteron multicornis (Houart, 1991)
• Poropteron quinquelobatus (G. B. Sowerby II, 1879)
• Poropteron transkeianus (Houart, 1991)
• Poropteron uncinarius (Lamarck, 1822)