Vokesimurex bobyini is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]
Vokesimurex bobyini | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Family: | Muricidae |
Genus: | Vokesimurex |
Species: | V. bobyini
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Binomial name | |
Vokesimurex bobyini (Kosuge, 1983)
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Synonyms[1] | |
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Description
editThe length of the shell attains 61 mm.
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Distribution
editThis marine species occurs in the Philippines.
References
edit- ^ a b Vokesimurex bobyini (Kosuge, 1983). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
- Kosuge, S. (1983). Description of a new species of the genus Murex from Philippines (Gastropoda). Bulletin of the Institute of Malacology, Tokyo. 1 (9): 135-136, pl. 47.
- Merle D., Garrigues B. & Pointier J.-P. (2011) Fossil and Recent Muricidae of the world. Part Muricinae. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 648 pp
- Houart, R. (2014). Living Muricidae of the world. Muricinae. Murex, Promurex, Haustellum, Bolinus, Vokesimurex and Siratus. Harxheim: ConchBooks. 197 pp.