Babelomurex pacei | |
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Shell of Babelomurex pacei (holotype at the Smithsonian Institution) | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Family: | Muricidae |
Subfamily: | Coralliophilinae |
Genus: | Babelomurex |
Species: | B. pacei
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Binomial name | |
Babelomurex pacei (Petuch, 1987)
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Synonyms | |
Coralliophila pacei Petuch, 1987 superseded combination &display_parents= 3 |
Babelomurex pacei is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. [1]
Original description: "Shell small for genus, with ovate, inflated body whorl and elevated, scalariform spire; body whorl ornamented with 2 large fimbriated spiral cords, one at shoulder and one below (anterior to) mid-body; 3 small squamose spiral cords between suture and large shoulder cord; 2 small squamose spiral cords between 2 large cords around anterior end; 9 low varices per whorl; large scale produced at intersection of varix and spiral cord, giving shell fimbriated appearance; shell uniformly cream-white in color." [2]
Locus typicus: "Off Pompano outfall, Pompano Beach, Florida, USA."
[3]
This species was recently discovered in Martinique, French West Indies.
Babelomurex pacei | |
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Shell of Babelomurex pacei (holotype at the Smithsonian Institution) | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Family: | Muricidae |
Subfamily: | Coralliophilinae |
Genus: | Babelomurex |
Species: | B. pacei
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Binomial name | |
Babelomurex pacei (Petuch, 1987)
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Synonyms | |
Coralliophila pacei Petuch, 1987 superseded combination &display_parents= 3 |
Babelomurex pacei is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. [1]
Original description: "Shell small for genus, with ovate, inflated body whorl and elevated, scalariform spire; body whorl ornamented with 2 large fimbriated spiral cords, one at shoulder and one below (anterior to) mid-body; 3 small squamose spiral cords between suture and large shoulder cord; 2 small squamose spiral cords between 2 large cords around anterior end; 9 low varices per whorl; large scale produced at intersection of varix and spiral cord, giving shell fimbriated appearance; shell uniformly cream-white in color." [2]
Locus typicus: "Off Pompano outfall, Pompano Beach, Florida, USA."
[3]
This species was recently discovered in Martinique, French West Indies.