Trochia cingulata | |
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Several shells of Trochia cingulata (museum specimens at Naturalis Biodiversity Center) | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Family: | Muricidae |
Genus: | Trochia |
Species: | T. cingulata
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Binomial name | |
Trochia cingulata (Linnaeus, 1771)
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Synonyms [1] | |
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Trochia cingulata, common name : the girdled dogwhelk, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. [1]
The shell size varies between 20 mm and 45 mm
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This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off Namibia and the West Coast of South Africa. [1]
Trochia cingulata | |
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Several shells of Trochia cingulata (museum specimens at Naturalis Biodiversity Center) | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Family: | Muricidae |
Genus: | Trochia |
Species: | T. cingulata
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Binomial name | |
Trochia cingulata (Linnaeus, 1771)
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Synonyms [1] | |
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Trochia cingulata, common name : the girdled dogwhelk, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. [1]
The shell size varies between 20 mm and 45 mm
![]() | This section needs expansion. You can help by
adding to it. (April 2010) |
This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off Namibia and the West Coast of South Africa. [1]