Favartia bojadorensis
| Favartia bojadorensis | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Subfamily: | Muricopsinae |
| Genus: | Favartia |
| Subgenus: | Murexiella |
| Species: | F. bojadorensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Favartia bojadorensis (Locard, 1897) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Favartia bojadorensis, common name the Bojador murex, 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 30 mm and 100 mm
Distribution
This species is distributed in European waters and in the Atlantic Ocean along the Canary Islands, Ghana and Angola
References
- 1 2 Favartia (Murexiella) bojadorensis (Locard, 1897). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 27 November 2010.
- Gofas, S.; Afonso, J.P.; Brandà o, M. (Ed.). (S.a.). Conchas e Moluscos de Angola = Coquillages et Mollusques d'Angola. [Shells and molluscs of Angola]. Universidade Agostinho / Elf Aquitaine Angola: Angola. 140 pp.
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