Pterynotus martinetana, common name : the fenestrate murex, 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: | Pterynotus |
| Species: | P. martinetana
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| Pterynotus martinetana (Röding, 1798)
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Description
editThe size of an adult shell varies between 18 mm and 55 mm.
Distribution
editThis wide-ranging species is found in the Red Sea -and in the Pacific Ocean
in the Philippines, in Hawaii and the Ryukyus, Japan.
References
edit- ^ Pterynotus martinetana (Röding, 1798). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 24 April 2010.
External links
edit- "Pterymarchia martinetana". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 30 April 2011.
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