Favartia bojadorensis

Favartia bojadorensis
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]
  • Hexaplex bojadorensis (Locard, 1897)
  • Murex bojadorensis Locard, 1897
  • Murexiella asteriae Nicolay, 1972
  • Murexiella bojadorensis (Locard, 1897)

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

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