Sipho

Sipho
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Buccinoidea
Family:	Buccinidae
Genus:	Sipho;

Sipho is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.^[1]

The name of the genus Sipho Mörch, 1852 [ex Klein] has become invalid and is a synonym of Colus Röding, 1798. A previous use of the genus name Sipho T. Brown, 1827 is now a synonym of Puncturella ^[2]

Species

All the species that used to belong to the genus Sipho have become synonyms of other species in the family Buccinidae.

Sipho astrolabiensis Strebel, 1908:^[3] synonym of Prosipho astrolabiensis (Strebel, 1908)

References

^ Sipho. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 28 February 2011.
^ WoRMS : Sipho; accessed : 7 November 2010
^ Sipho astrolabiensis Strebel, 1908. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 April 2010.

External links

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[WoRMS-1] Sipho. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 28 February 2011.

[2] WoRMS : Sipho; accessed : 7 November 2010

[3] Sipho astrolabiensis Strebel, 1908. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 April 2010.

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