Tylothais aculeata
Appearance
Tylothais aculeata | |
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Shell of Tylothais aculeata (specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
Family: | Muricidae |
Subfamily: | Rapaninae |
Genus: | Tylothais |
Species: | T. aculeata
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Binomial name | |
Tylothais aculeata (Deshayes, 1844)
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Tylothais aculeata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1][2]
Distribution
[edit]This marine species occurs off Papua New Guinea.
References
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- ^ a b MolluscaBase (2018). Tylothais aculeata (Deshayes, 1844). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1048566 on 2019-01-06
- ^ Houart R. (2017). Description of eight new species and one new genus of Muricidae (Gastropoda) from the Indo-West Pacific. Novapex. 18(4): 81-103.