Pterochelus

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

Pterochelus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Muricidae
Subfamily:	Muricinae
Genus:	Pterochelus Jousseaume, 1880

Species

Species within the genus Pterochelus include:

• Pterochelus acanthopterus (Lamarck, 1816)^[2]
• Pterochelus akation (Vokes, 1993)^[3]
• Pterochelus ariomus (Clench & Farfante, 1945)^[4]
• Pterochelus duffusi Iredale, 1936^[5]
• Pterochelus triformis (Reeve, 1845)^[6]
• Pterochelus undosus (Vokes, 1993)^[7]
• Pterochelus westralis (Ponder & Wilson, 1973)^[8]