Vokesimurex elenensis
| Vokesimurex elenensis | |
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| Two shells of Vokesimurex elenensis (museum specimens at Naturalis Biodiversity Center) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Subfamily: | Muricinae |
| Genus: | Vokesimurex |
| Species: | V. elenensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Vokesimurex elenensis (Dall, 1909) | |
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Vokesimurex elenensis, common name the (Santa) Elena murex, 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 the shell varies between 40 mm and 105 mm.
Distribution
This marine species occurs in the Pacific Ocean from Baja California, Mexico, to Peru
References
- 1 2 Vokesimurex elenensis (Dall, 1909). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
- Houart R. (2014). Living Muricidae of the world. Muricinae. Murex, Promurex, Haustellum, Bolinus, Vokesimurex and Siratus. Harxheim: ConchBooks. 197 pp.
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