Muricodrupa anaxares
Appearance
Muricodrupa anaxares | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Family: | Muricidae |
Genus: | Muricodrupa |
Species: | M. anaxares
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Binomial name | |
Muricodrupa anaxares (Kiener, 1835)
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Synonyms[1] | |
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Muricodrupa anaxares is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[2] Before 2019,[3] it was classified as Morula anaxares.[1]
Description
[edit]The shell size varies between 13 mm and 26 mm
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Distribution
[edit]This species is found at rocky shores in the Red Sea, in the Indian Ocean off Aldabra, Chagos, Kenya, Madagascar, the Mascarene Basin and Tanzania and in the Indo-West Pacific; off Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia).
References
[edit]- ^ a b Morula anaxares (Kiener, 1835). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 15 December 2018.
- ^ Muricodrupa anaxares (Kiener, 1835). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 6 february 2018.
- ^ Houart, Roland; Zuccon, Dario; Puillandre, Nicolas (9 April 2019). "Description of new genera and new species of Ergalataxinae (Gastropoda: Muricidae)".
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- Kiener, L.C. 1836. Spécies général et Iconographie des coquilles vivantes, comprenant la collection du Muséum d'histoire Naturelle de Paris, la collection de Lamarck, celle du Prince Massena (appartenant maintenant a M. le Baron B. Delessert) et les découvertes récentes des voyageurs. Paris : Ballière Vol. 8 1–151, pls 1–46.
- Reeve, L.A. 1846. Monograph of the genus Purpura. pls 1–13 in Reeve, L.A. (ed). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 3.
- Spry, J.F. (1961). The sea shells of Dar es Salaam: Gastropods. Tanganyika Notes and Records 56
- MacNae, W. & M. Kalk (eds) (1958). A natural history of Inhaca Island, Mozambique. Witwatersrand Univ. Press, Johannesburg. I-iv, 163 pp.
- Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Mollusques testaces marins de Madagascar. Faune des Colonies Francaises, Tome III
- Kilburn, R.N. & Rippey, E. (1982) Sea Shells of Southern Africa. Macmillan South Africa, Johannesburg, xi + 249 pp. page(s): 87
- Wilson, B. 1994. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp.
- Tan, K.S. 1995. Taxonomy of Thais and Morula (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Muricidae) in Singapore and Vicinity. 546 pp.
- Middelfart, P. 1997. An illustrated checklist of Muricidae (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia) from the Andaman Sea, Thailand. Phuket Marine Biological Center Special Publication 17(2): 349–388
- Houart R., Kilburn R.N. & Marais A.P. (2010) Muricidae. pp. 176–270, in: Marais A.P. & Seccombe A.D. (eds), Identification guide to the seashells of South Africa. Volume 1. Groenkloof: Centre for Molluscan Studies. 376 pp.
External links
[edit]- "Morula (Morula) anaxeres". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
- MNHN, Paris: syntype
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