Thaisella trinitatensis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1][2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Subfamily: | Rapaninae |
| Genus: | Thaisella |
| Species: | T. trinitatensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Thaisella trinitatensis (Guppy, 1869)
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Description
editThe length of the shell attains 45 mm.
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Distribution
editThe type locality is contained in Trinidad and Tobago; also in the Atlantic Ocean off Brazil.
Habitat
editThis species is found in the following habitats:[1]
- Brackish
- Marine
References
edit- ^ a b c MolluscaBase (2018). Thaisella trinitatensis (Guppy, 1869). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1023329 on 2019-01-06
- ^ Simone, L. R. L. (2017). A new species of Thaisella (Neogastropoda: Muricidae) from Caribbean Guatemala, with accounts on the anatomy and taxonomy of the genus in the Western Atlantic. Archiv für Molluskenkunde. 146(1): 111-120.
External links
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