Vitularia crenifer 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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Drawing of a shell of Vitularia crenifer | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Family: | Muricidae |
Subfamily: | Muricopsinae |
Genus: | Vitularia |
Species: | V. crenifer
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Binomial name | |
Vitularia crenifer (Montrouzier, 1861)
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Description
editThe length of the yellowish-brown shell attains 35 mm.
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Distribution
editThis marine species occurs off the Philippines, the Loyalty Islands , New Caledonia and Hawaii.[citation needed]
References
edit- ^ a b Vitularia crenifer (Montrouzier, 1861). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
- Souverbie, M. (1861) Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de l'Archipel Calédonien. Journal de Conchyliologie, 9, 271–284, pl. 11.
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