Favartia (Favartia) perita is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Genus: | Favartia |
| Species: | F. perita
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| Binomial name | |
| Favartia perita (Hinds, 1844)
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Description
editThe size of the shell is 21 mm
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Distribution
editThis species is distributed in the Pacific Ocean along Baja California, Panama and the Galapagos islands.
References
edit- ^ a b Favartia (Favartia) perita (Hinds, 1844). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 21 December 2010.
External links
edit- "Murexiella (Murexiella) perita". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 21 December 2010.
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