Thais tuberosa
| Thais (Thalessa) tuberosa | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Subfamily: | Rapaninae |
| Genus: | Thais |
| Subgenus: | Mancinella |
| Species: | T. tuberosa |
| Binomial name | |
| Thais (Thalessa) tuberosa Röding, 1798 | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Thais (Thalessa) tuberosa, common name : the Knobbed Rock Shell, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]
Description
The size of an adult shell varies between 17 mm and 50 mm.
Distribution
This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Madagascar and Tanzania; also in the southwestern and central Pacific Ocean.
References
- 1 2 Thais (Thalessa) tuberosa Röding, 1798. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 2 April 2011.
- Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Mollusques testacés marins de Madagascar. Faune des Colonies Francaises, Tome III [
- Spry, J.F. (1961). The sea shells of Dar es Salaam: Gastropods. Tanganyika Notes and Records 56
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