Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Neogastropoda > Superfamily Muricoidea > Family Muricidae > Subfamily Coralliophilinae > Genus Coralliophila

Coralliophila profundicola F. Haas, 1949

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Coralliophila*	H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853	accepted genus name
*Murex (Pseudomurex)*	Monterosato, 1872	synonym
*Pseudomurex*	Monterosato, 1872	synonym
*Pseudomurex (Fusomurex)*	Coen, 1922	synonym
*Pseudomurex (Latiromurex)*	Coen, 1922	synonym
*Pseudomurex (Lepadomurex)*	Coen, 1922	synonym
*Rhizochilus (Coralliophila)*	H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853	synonym

Literature

original description	Haas, F. (1949). On some deep-sea mollusks from Bermuda. Butlletí de la Institució Catalana d'Història Natural. 37: 69-72.
additional source	Kosuge S. & Suzuki M. (1985). Illustrated catalogue of Latiaxis and its related groups, Family Coralliophilidae. Institute of Malacology of Tokyo, Special Publication. 1: v + 83 pp., 50 pls.
additional source	Oliverio M. & Gofas S. (2006). Coralliophiline diversity at mid-Atlantic seamounts (Neogastropoda, Muricidae, Coralliophilinae). Bulletin of Marine Science 79(1): 205-230
status source	Garrigues, B., Lamy, D. & Zuccon, D. (2022). The Coralliophilinae from the Antilles and French Guiana with the description of six new species. Xenophora Taxonomy. 37: 4-53.

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Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Coralliophila profundicola F. Haas, 1949. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:748246

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Environment

marine, not brackish, not fresh, not terrestrial

Importance

IUCN:
Red List status VU 1998 This species is vulnerable and is considered to be facing a high risk of extinction in the wild according to the red list of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources

This species is vulnerable and is considered to be facing a high risk of extinction in the wild according to the red list of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources

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2022-08-25 by Kurt Auffenberg

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