Phyllonotus pomum, the apple murex, is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]
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| Phyllonotus pomum (Gmelin, 1791) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Genus: | Phyllonotus |
| Species: | P. pomum
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| Phyllonotus pomum (Gmelin, 1791)
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Description
editThe adult shell's dimensions range from 44 mm to 133 mm.
Original description of Lovell Augustus Reeve (published 1843):
The shell is fusiformly oblong, thick, solid, very rough throughout, transversely conspicuously ridged, tuberculated between the varices ; three-varicose, varices tuberculated with a complicated mass of laminae ; fulvous or reddish brown, columella and interior of the aperture ochraceous yellow, columellar lip slightly wrinkled, edge erected, vividly stained, especially at the upper part, with very black brown ; outer lip strongly toothed, ornamented with three black-brown spots ; canal rather short, compressed, recurved."[2]
Distribution
editThis species occurs in the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico and the Lesser Antilles; in the Atlantic Ocean between North Carolina and Northern Brazil.
References
edit- ^ a b Phyllonotus pomum (Gmelin, 1791). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 23 June 2011.
- ^ Lovell Augustus Reeve (1845). Conchologia Iconica: Or, Illustrations of the Shells of Molluscous Animals: III. Reeve. p. 41.
External links
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- "Phyllonotus pomum". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 23 June 2011.
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