Xastilia kosugei
Appearance
Xastilia kosugei | |
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Shell of Xastilia kosugei (holotype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Family: | Muricidae |
Subfamily: | Muricopsinae |
Genus: | Xastilia |
Species: | X. kosugei
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Binomial name | |
Xastilia kosugei Bouchet & Houart, 1994
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Xastilia kosugei is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]
Description
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Distribution
[edit]The marine species occurs on the Lord Howe Ridge, South Pacific.
References
[edit]- ^ a b Xastilia kosugei Bouchet & Houart, 1994. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
- Bouchet, P. & Houart, R. (1994). A new coralliophilid-like muricid from the Coral Sea. Journal of Conchology. 35(2): 131-135
- Merle, D., Garrigues, B. & Pointier, J.P. (2022). Fossil and Recent Muricidae of the world: Part Muricopsinae. Harxheim: ConchBooks. 528 pp.