Neothais marginatra
| Neothais marginatra | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Subfamily: | Rapaninae |
| Genus: | Neothais |
| Species: | N. marginatra |
| Binomial name | |
| Neothais marginatra (Blainville, 1832) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Neothais marginatra, common name : the brownish drupe, 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 20 mm and 45 mm
Distribution
This marine species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Aldabra, the Mascarene Basin, the coast of South Africa and Mozambique; in the Pacific Ocean off Hawaii , the Fiji Islands, Samoan Islands and Polynesia.
References
- 1 2 Semiricinula marginatra (Blainville, 1832). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 18 December 2010.
- Taylor, J.D. (1971). Intertidal Zonation at Aldabra Atoll. Phil. Trns. Roy. Soc. Lond. B. 260, 173-213
- Taylor, J.D. (1973). Provisional list of the mollusca of Aldabra Atoll
- MacNae, W. & M. Kalk (eds) (1958). A natural history of Inhaca Island, Mozambique. Witwatersrand Univ. Press, Johannesburg. I-iv, 163 pp
- Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice
- Claremont M., Vermeij G.J., Williams S.T. & Reid D.G. (2013) Global phylogeny and new classification of the Rapaninae (Gastropoda: Muricidae), dominant molluscan predators on tropical rocky seashores. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 66: 91–102
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