Latiaxis pilsbryi
| Latiaxis pilsbryi | |
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| Shell of Latiaxis pilsbryi Hirase, 1908, height 28 mm, locality unknown. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Subfamily: | Coralliophilinae |
| Genus: | Latiaxis |
| Species: | L. pilsbryi |
| Binomial name | |
| Latiaxis pilsbryi Hirase, 1908[1] | |
Shell of Latiaxis pilsbryi Hirase, 1908, measuring 23.5 mm in length, taken at 80 fathoms in tangle nets off Cebu Island in the Philippines.
Latiaxis pilsbryi[2] is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
References
- ↑ Hirase Y. (1908) "Appendix - On Japanese marine Mollusca (II), with the description of new species of Muricidae and Buccinidae". Conchological Magazine (Kyoto) 2(12): 69-73, pl. 41, figs. 239-240.
- ↑ Latiaxis pilsbryi Hirase, 1908. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 December 2010.
External links
- Oliverio M. (2008) Coralliophilinae (Neogastropoda: Muricidae) from the southwest Pacific. In: V. Héros, R.H. Cowie & P. Bouchet (eds), Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos 25. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 196: 481-585, at page 554.
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