Phyllocoma platyca
Appearance
Phyllocoma platyca | |
---|---|
Shell of Phyllocoma platyca (holotype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Family: | Muricidae |
Genus: | Phyllocoma |
Species: | P. platyca
|
Binomial name | |
Phyllocoma platyca Houart, 2001[1]
|
Phyllocoma (Phyllocoma) platyca is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[2]
Description
[edit]The length of the shell attains 19.4 mm (0.76 in).
This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. (January 2022) |
Distribution
[edit]This marine species occurs off Wallis and Futuna in the South Pacific.
References
[edit]- ^ Houart (2001). Mem. Mus. Nat. Hist. Nat. 185 : 243–269. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 24 April 2010.
- ^ Phyllocoma (Phyllocoma) platyca Houart, 2001. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 January 2011.
- Houart R. (2001). Ingensia gen. nov. and eleven new species of Muricidae (Gastropoda) from New Caledonia, Vanuatu, and Wallis and Futuna Islands. pp. 243-269, in: Bouchet P. & Marshall B.A. (eds.) Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos, 22. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 185: 243–269