''Sipho'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...

of sea snails, marine gastropod

mollusk Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is es ...

s in the

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Buccinidae The Buccinidae are a very large and diverse taxonomic family of large sea snails, often known as whelks or true whelks.Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2010). Buccinidae. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. A ...

, the true whelks. The name of the genus ''Sipho'' Mörch, 1852 x Kleinhas 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''

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: synonym of ''

Prosipho astrolabiensis ''Prosipho astrolabiensis'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This clas ...

'' (Strebel, 1908)

References

External links

* Buccinidae {{Buccinidae-stub