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.

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