Coralliophila violacea

Coralliophila violacea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Muricidae
Subfamily:	Coralliophilinae
Genus:	Coralliophila
Species:	C. violacea
Binomial name
Coralliophila violacea Kiener, 1836
Synonyms[1]
Coralliophila neritoidea (Gmelin, 1791) Fusus neritoideus (Name generally attributed to Lamarck, 1816, but in fact a new combination of Murex neritoideus of Gmelin) Murex neritoideus Chemnitz, 1788 (Unavailable name: published in non-binomial work) Murex neritoideus Gmelin, 1791 (Invalid: junior homonym of Murex neritoideus Linnaeus, 1767) Purpura violacea Kiener, 1836 (basionym)

Coralliophila violacea, common name : the violet coral shell, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.^[1]

Description

The shell size varies between 17 mm and 47 mm

Distribution

This species is distributed in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean along Aldabra, Chagos, Kenya, Madagascar and Tanzania, in the Indo-Pacific and along the Galapagos Islands

References

1. Coralliophila violacea Kiener, 1836.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 24 April 2010.

• Dautzenberg, P. (1923). Liste preliminaire des mollusques marins de Madagascar et description de deux especes nouvelles. Journal de Conchyliologie 68: 21-74
• Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Mollusques testacés marins de Madagascar. Faune des Colonies Francaises, Tome III
• Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice
• Oliverio M. (2008) Coralliophilinae (Neogastropoda: Muricidae) from the southwest Pacific. In: V. Héros, R.H. Cowie & P. Bouchet (eds), Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos 25. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 196: 481-585. page(s): 486

External links

• Gastropods.com : Coralliophila (Coralliophila) neritoidea; accessed : 2 February 2011