Harpa harpa
| Harpa harpa | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
| Family: | Harpidae |
| Genus: | Harpa |
| Subgenus: | Harpa |
| Species: | H. harpa |
| Binomial name | |
| Harpa harpa (Linnaeus, 1758) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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H. nobilis
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Harpa harpa, common name the true harp, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Harpidae, the harp snails.[1]
Description
Ovate, short sharp spines on shoulder; Flesh pink with dark brown lines going around the shell.
Distribution
This species occurs in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean off Chagos, the Comores, Djibouti, Eritrea, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique, Réunion, the Seychelles, Somalia and Tanzania.
References
- 1 2 Harpa harpa (Linnaeus, 1758). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
- Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Mollusques testacés marins de Madagascar. Faune des Colonies Francaises, Tome III
- Rehder H.A. (1973). The family Harpidae of the world. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 3(16) : 207-274
- Walls, J.G. (1980). Conchs, tibias and harps. A survey of the molluscan families Strombidae and Harpidae. T.F.H. Publications Ltd, Hong Kong
- Dance, S.P. & G.T. Poppe, 1999 Family Harpidae. In : A Conchological Iconography (ConchBooks, ed.), 69 p.
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