Pyrazus
{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}}
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| image_caption = Pyrazus scalatus from the Pliocene of Florida
| taxon = Pyrazus
| authority = Montfort, 1810Montfort (1810). Conch. Syst. 2: 458.
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Pyrazus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Batillariidae.{{Bouchet 2005}}{{WRMS species|204441|Pyrazus Montfort, 1810||28 April 2024}} Pyriazidae is a synonym of Batillariidae and Pyrazus is the type genus of the Pyriazidae.
Species
Species within the genus Pyrazus include:
- Pyrazus eriensis (Mörch, 1876){{WRMS species|473602|Pyrazus eriensis (Mörch, 1876)||17 May 2010}}
- Pyrazus ebeninus (Bruguière, 1792){{WRMS species|446439|Pyrazus ebeninus (Bruguière, 1792)||17 May 2010}}
- † Pyrazus pentagonatus (Schlotheim, 1820) - from Eocene of HungaryBandel K. (2006). "Families of the Cerithioidea and related superfamilies (Palaeo-Caenogastropoda; Mollusca) from the Triassic to the Recent characterized by protoconch morphology - including the description of new taxa". Freiberger Forschungshefte C 511: 59-138. [http://www.palaeontologische-gesellschaft.de/palges/bandel/bandel_2006.pdf PDF]{{dead link|date=April 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}.
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Category:Extant Eocene first appearances
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