Phycothais botanica is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[2]
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Species: | P. botanica
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Phycothais botanica (Hedley, 1918)
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Description
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Distribution
editThis marine species is endemic to Australia and occurs off New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania and Victoria.
References
edit- ^ Tan, K.S. (2003). "Phylogenetic analysis and taxonomy of some southern Australia and New Zealand Muricidae (Mollusca: Neogastropoda)". Journal of Natural History. 37 (8): 911–1028. Bibcode:2003JNatH..37..911T. doi:10.1080/00222930110120610. S2CID 83502042.
- ^ a b Phycothais botanica Hedley, 1918. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 24 April 2010.
- Hedley, C. 1918. A checklist of the marine fauna of New South Wales. Part 1. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 51: M1-M120.
- Angas, G.F. 1867. Descriptions of thirty-two new species of marine shells from the coast of New South Wales. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1867: 110–117, pl. 13
- Tate, R. 1888. The gastropods of the older Tertiary of Australia. Part I. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 10: 91–176
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