Favartia glypta

Favartia (Favartia) glypta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Muricidae
Subfamily: Muricopsinae
Genus: Favartia
Subgenus: Favartia
Species: F. glypta
Binomial name
Favartia (Favartia) glypta
(M. Smith, 1938)
Synonyms[1]
  • Murex glyptus M. Smith, 1938
  • Murexiella glypta (M. Smith, 1938)
  • Murexiella iemanja Petuch, 1979

Favartia (Favartia) glypta 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 12 mm and 29 mm

Distribution

This species is distributed in the Gulf of Mexico along Florida and in the Atlantic Ocean along Brazil.

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