Hexaplex duplex

'Hexaplex (Trunculariopsis) duplex
Shell of Hexaplex duplex Röding, 1798, with operculum, measuring 93.5 mm in height, from off the mouth of the Joel River, in Senegal, Africa.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Muricidae
Subfamily: Muricinae
Genus: Hexaplex
Subgenus: Trunculariopsis
Species: H. duplex
Trinomial name
Hexaplex (Trunculariopsis) duplex
Röding, 1798
Synonyms
  • Hexaplex (Trunculariopsis) duplex (Röding, 1798) · accepted, alternate representation
  • Hexaplex (Trunculariopsis) duplex canariensis (Nordsieck, 1975)
  • Hexaplex (Trunculariopsis) duplex duplex (Röding, 1798)
  • Hexaplex turbinatus (Lamarck, 1822)
  • Murex eurystomus Swainson, 1833
  • Murex hoplites P. Fischer, 1876
  • Murex minima Dautzenberg, 1910
  • Murex saxatilis Linnaeus (auctt.)
  • Murex turbinatus Lamarck, 1822
  • Phyllonotus duplex (Röding, 1798)
  • Purpura duplex Röding, 1798 (original combination)
  • Trunculariopsis canariensis Nordsieck, 1975

Hexaplex (Trunculariopsis) duplex is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]

Subspecies

Both subspecies are now considered synonyms of Hexaplex duplex.

Description

The length of the shell varies between 30 and 229 millimetres (1.2 and 9.0 in). It contains six to eight varices. These are singly spinous, the spines somewhat frondose, those on the shoulder of the whorls usually larger and curved. There are no interstitial ribs. The color of the shell is light yellowish brown, usually more or less pink-banded. The aperture is pink, with three or four darker bands. [4]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Red Sea and in the Atlantic Ocean off the Cape Verdes and the Canary Islands; and from Senegal to Angola. It has also been described as Murex turbinatus from the Mediterranean Sea.

References

  1. Hexaplex (Trunculariopsis) duplex Röding, 1798.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 10 November 2011.
  2. Houart, R. (2009). Hexaplex (Trunculariopsis) duplex duplex (Röding, 1798). Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=406152 on 18 May 2010
  3. Houart, R. (2009). Hexaplex (Trunculariopsis) duplex canariensis (Nordsieck, 1975). Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=406154 on 18 May 2010
  4. G.W. Tryon (1880) Manual of Conchology II, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (described as Murex saxatilis)

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