Prototyphis

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

Prototyphis
Prototyphis angasi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Muricidae
Subfamily:	Muricinae
Genus:	Prototyphis Ponder, 1972
Type species
Typhis angasi Crosse, 1863
Synonyms
Pterotyphis (Prototyphis) Ponder, 1972

Species

Species within the genus Prototyphis include:

• † Prototyphis allani (P. A. Maxwell, 1971)
• Prototyphis angasi (Crosse, 1863)^[2]
• † Prototyphis awamoanus (Finlay, 1930)
• Prototyphis eos (Hutton, 1873)^[3]
• Prototyphis gracilis Houart & Héros, 2008^[4]
• † Prototyphis tahuensis (P. A. Maxwell, 1971)

Species brought into synonymy

• Prototyphis (Ponderia) zealandicus (Hutton, 1873): synonym of Ponderia zealandica (Hutton, 1873)
• Prototyphis paupereques (Powell, 1974):^[5] synonym of Prototyphis eos paupereques (Powell, 1974)
• Prototyphis zealandicus (Hutton, 1873): synonym of Ponderia zealandica (Hutton, 1873)