Trachypollia didyma is a species of small big predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]
Trachypollia didyma | |
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Shell of Trachypollia didyma (specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Family: | Muricidae |
Genus: | Trachypollia |
Species: | T. didyma
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Binomial name | |
Trachypollia didyma (Schwengel, 1943)
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Synonyms[1] | |
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Description
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Distribution
editThis marine species occurs off Florida, Bermuda, Martinique and Guadeloupe
References
edit- ^ a b Trachypollia didyma (Schwengel, 1943). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 24 April 2010.
- Jensen, R. H. (1997). A Checklist and Bibliography of the Marine Molluscs of Bermuda. Unp. , 547 pp
- Garrigues B. & Lamy D. (2019). Inventaire des Muricidae récoltés au cours de la campagne MADIBENTHOS du MNHN en Martinique (Antilles Françaises) et description de 12 nouvelles espèces des genres Dermomurex, Attilosa, Acanthotrophon, Favartia, Muricopsis et Pygmaepterys (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Xenophora Taxonomy. 23: 22-59.
External links
edit- Schwengel, J. S. (1943). New marine shells from Florida. The Nautilus. 56(3): 75-78, pl. 7
- Radwin G. & D'Attilio A. (1972). The systematics of some New World muricid species (Mollusca, Gastropoda), with description of two new genera and two new species. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 85(28): 323-352.
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