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Vaughtia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.

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  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumMollusca
  3. ClassGastropoda
  4. OrderNeogastropoda
  5. FamilyMuricidae
Habitatmarine, brackish

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Ocenebrinae
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Vaughtia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.

==Species== Species within the genus Vaughtia include: Vaughtia babingtoni (G.B. Sowerby III, 1892) Vaughtia dawnbrinkae Lussi, 2012 Vaughtia dunkeri (Krauss, 1848) Vaughtia fenestrata (Gould, 1860) Vaughtia gruveli (Dautzenberg, 1910) Vaughtia hayesi (Lorenz, 1995) Vaughtia jucunda (Thiele, 1925) Vaughtia olivemeyerae Lussi, 2012 Vaughtia parvifusus Lussi, 2012 Vaughtia purpuroides (Reeve, 1845) Vaughtia scrobiculata (Dunker, 1846) Vaughtia squamata Houart, 2003 Synonyms: Vaughtia transkeiensis (Houart, 1987): synonym of Gemixystus transkeiensis (Houart, 1987)

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