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.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Poropteron Jousseaume, 1880. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=459516 on 2022-02-06
General characteristics (Original description in French) The shell is somewhat triangular in shape, with a fairly elevated pyramidal spire. The whorls are ornamented with three thick, lamellar varices, crenellated by projecting, grooved ribs and ending posteriorly in a rather long spine curved like a hook. The aperture is oval, with continuous and detached margins, while the siphonal canal is short and closed. Jousseaume, F. (1882). Etude des Purpuridae et description d'espèces nouvelles. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie. ser. 3, 7: 314-348
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)
References
External links
Jousseaume, F. P. (1880). Division méthodique de la famille des Purpuridés. Le Naturaliste. 2(42): 335-338 Barco, A.; Herbert, G.; Houart, R.; Fassio, G. & Oliverio, M. (2017). A molecular phylogenetic framework for the subfamily Ocenebrinae (Gastropoda, Muricidae). Zoologica Scripta. 46 (3): 322-335