Vokesimurex mindanaoensis
| Vokesimurex mindanaoensis | |
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| Shell of Vokesimurex mindanaoensis (museum specimen 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. mindanaoensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Vokesimurex mindanaoensis (Sowerby II, 1841) | |
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Vokesimurex mindanaoensis, common name the Mindanao 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 59 mm and 114 mm.
Distribution
This marine species occurs off the Philippines and Indonesia.
References
- 1 2 Vokesimurex mindanaoensis (Sowerby II, 1841). 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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