Glaphyrina

Glaphyrina is a genus of large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusc in the family Buccinidae, the whelks.

Glaphyrina
Temporal range: Miocene to Recent
Glaphyrina caudata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:
Buccinoidea
Family:
Buccinidae
Genus:
Glaphyrina

Finlay, 1927[1]
Type species
Fusus vulpicolor G.B. Sowerby II, 1880
Species

See text

Species

Species in the genus Glaphyrina include:[2]

References
  1. Finlay H. J. (1927). Trans. New Zealand Inst. 57: 414.
  2. Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
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