Pazinotus stimpsonii is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]
Pazinotus stimpsonii | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Family: | Muricidae |
Genus: | Pazinotus |
Species: | P. stimpsonii
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Binomial name | |
Pazinotus stimpsonii (Dall, 1889)
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Synonyms[1] | |
Eupleura stimpsonii Dall, 1889 |
Description
editThis deepwater species attains a size of 15 mm.
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Distribution
editThis deepwater marine species occurs off Guadeloupe.
Also from the Gulf of Mexico, east coast of Florida,
and into the Caribbean Sea, south to Barbados.
References
edit- ^ a b Pazinotus stimpsonii (Dall, 1889). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 24 April 2010.
- G arrigues B . & Lamy D. 2018, 218. Muricidae récoltés au cours de la campagne KARUBENTHOS 2 du MNHN dans les eaux profondes de Guadeloupe (Antilles Françaises) et description de trois nouvelles espèces des genres Pagodula et Pygmaepterys (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Xenophora Taxonomy 20: 34-52
- Costa P.M.S. & Pimenta A.D. (2012) Revision of the genus Pazinotus (Gastropoda, Muricidae) from Brazil. American Malacological Bulletin 30(1): 117-126
- Rosenberg, G.; Moretzsohn, F.; García, E. F. (2009). Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.