Muricopsis

Muricopsis
An apertural view of a shell of Muricopsis (Muricopsis) necocheana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Muricidae
Genus: Muricopsis
Bucquoy, Dautzenberg and Dollfus, 1882
Species

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Muricopsis is a genus of small predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the rock snails.

Species

According to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), the following species with accepted names are included within the genus Muricopsis :[1]

Muricopsis (Muricopsis) Bucquoy & Dautzenberg, 1882
Muricopsis (Risomurex) Olsson & McGinty, 1958
Species brought into synonymy 

The Indo-Pacific Molluscan database also mentions the following species with names in current use (those not mentioned here can be found in the genera Murexsul, Favartia and Rolandiella) [2]

References

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