Neorapana grandis is a species of large predatory tropical sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the rock snails.[2]
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| Shell of Neorapana grandis (specimen 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: | Neorapana |
| Species: | N. grandis
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| Binomial name | |
| Neorapana grandis Sowerby I, 1835
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Distribution
editThis species is endemic to Ecuador, specifically to the Galapagos Islands.[citation needed]
Description
editThe shell of this species is 60 to 90 mm (2½ to 3½ inches) long, with brown scaly spiral ribbing.
References
edit- ^ Finet, Y. (1996). "Neorapana grandis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1996: e.T14561A4444519. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T14561A4444519.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
- ^ a b Rosenberg, G. (2012). Neorapana grandis. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=405034 on 2012-06-11
- A. Myra Keen, Sea shells of tropical west America, 1971, Stanford University Press, Stanford, California
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