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Purple Coral Snail

Coralliophila violacea (Kiener 1836)

Scientific Names

Preferred Names

Coralliophila violacea (Kiener 1836)
Species recognized by Dynamic Hierarchy Version 2 1
Reference taxon from World Register of Marine Species
Coralliophila violacea
Family recognized by Protists in Singapore
Coralliophila violacea
Recognized by Moorea Biocode and Furui 2020
Coralliophila violacea (Kiener 1836)
Coralliophila violacea Kiener 1836
Coralliophila neritoidea
Species recognized by PBDB in DwCA
Coralliophila violacea
Species recognized by United States Species List and Wikimedia Commons
Coralliophila violacea (Kiener 1836)
Species recognized by TreatmentBank

Alternative Names

Coralliophila neritoidea (Gmelin 1791)
Not accepted according to Dynamic Hierarchy Version 2 1
Reference taxon from World Register of Marine Species
Fusus neritoideus (Gmelin 1791)
Not accepted according to Dynamic Hierarchy Version 2 1
Reference taxon from World Register of Marine Species
Murex neritoideus Chemnitz 1788
Not accepted according to Dynamic Hierarchy Version 2 1
Reference taxon from World Register of Marine Species
Murex neritoideus Gmelin 1791
Not accepted according to Dynamic Hierarchy Version 2 1
Reference taxon from World Register of Marine Species
Purpura violacea Kiener 1836
Not accepted according to Dynamic Hierarchy Version 2 1
Reference taxon from World Register of Marine Species
Pyrula neritoidea (Gmelin 1791)
Not accepted according to Dynamic Hierarchy Version 2 1
Reference taxon from World Register of Marine Species
Fusus neritoideus
Recombined according to PBDB in DwCA

Common Names

English

purple coral snail preferred
violet coral shell
violet coralsnail

Chinese

紫口珊瑚螺 preferred
Recognized by wikipedia 日本語 and Wikidata

German

Violetter Korallengast preferred

Japanese

クチムラサキサンゴヤドリ preferred
Recognized by Furui 2020 and Wikidata

Zh Tw

紫口珊瑚螺 preferred
Recognized by Wikidata
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Curated hierarchies for Coralliophila violacea (Kiener 1836)

Dynamic Hierarchy Version 2 1

Life
Cellular Organisms
Eukaryota
Opisthokonta
Metazoa
Bilateria
Protostomia
Spiralia
Mollusca
Gastropoda Cuvier 1795
Caenogastropoda Cox 1960
Neogastropoda Wenz 1938
Muricoidea Rafinesque 1815
Muricidae Rafinesque 1815
Coralliophilinae Chenu 1859
Coralliophila H. Adams & A. Adams 1853
12 additional siblings truncated for brevity.
See the resource file for a full list.