Murex carbonnieri
Murex carbonnieri | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Family: | Muricidae |
Subfamily: | Muricinae |
Genus: | Murex |
Species: | M. carbonnieri |
Binomial name | |
Murex carbonnieri (Jousseaume, 1881) | |
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Murex carbonnieri, also known as Carbonnier's murex, is a species of large predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Muricidae, the rock snails or murex snails.[1]
Description
[edit]The length of the shell varies between 60 mm and 125 mm.
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Distribution
[edit]This species origin is in the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden and the United Arab Emirates; also off Pakistan, India, Bangladesh , Sri Lanka and the Philippines and Thailand; off Ethiopia and Eritrea.
References
[edit]- ^ Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (Ed.); Frýda J., Hausdorf B., Ponder W., Valdes A. & Warén A. 2005. Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia: International Journal of Malacology, 47(1-2). ConchBooks: Hackenheim, Germany. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997. 397 pp. http://www.vliz.be/Vmdcdata/imis2/ref.php?refid=78278
External links
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- Jousseaume, F. (1881). Diagnoses de mollusques nouveaux. Le Naturaliste. 3(44): 349-350
- Verrill A.H. (1950). New marine mollusks from Dominica, B. W. I. The Nautilus. 63: 126-128, pls 9-10
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