Rapana
Encyclopedia
Rapana is a genus
of large predatory sea snail
s, marine
gastropod mollusks in the family
Muricidae
, the rock snails.
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of large predatory sea snail
Snail
Snail is a common name applied to most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in its most general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. The word snail without any qualifier is however more often...
s, marine
Marine (ocean)
Marine is an umbrella term. As an adjective it is usually applicable to things relating to the sea or ocean, such as marine biology, marine ecology and marine geology...
gastropod mollusks in the family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
Muricidae
Muricidae
Muricidae, common name murex snails or rock snails, is a large and varied taxonomic family of small to large predatory sea snails. With approximately 1,600 living species the Muricidae represent almost 10% of the Neogastropoda. Additionally, 1,200 fossil species have been recognised...
, the rock snails.
Species
Species within the genus Rapana include:- Rapana rapiformisRapana rapiformisRapana rapiformis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails....
- Rapana venosa (Valenciennes, 1846) - synonyms: Rapana thomasiana (Crosse, 1861) and Rapana pontica (Nordsiek, 1969)