>By the way, I heard that Pleuroploca gigantea may not be a Pleuroploca.
>Has it been placed in a new genus?
Yes, Triplofusus Olsson and Harbison, 1953. The type of Pleuroploca is
trapezium, from the Indo-Pacific.
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