Babelomurex benoiti

Babelomurex benoiti
Shell of Babelomurex benoiti (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Muricidae
Genus: Babelomurex
Species:
B. benoiti
Binomial name
Babelomurex benoiti
(Tiberi, 1855)
Synonyms[1][2]
  • Latiaxis amaliae (Kobelt, 1907)
  • Latiaxis benoiti (Tiberi, 1855)
  • Murex benoiti Tiberi, 1855
  • Pseudomurex amaliae Kobelt, 1907

Babelomurex benoiti is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1][3]

Description

Its shell is white-yellowish with many small ridges. The shell is normally 20mm – 45mm in length, the mean being around 38mm.[3][4]

(Original description in Latin) The shell is ovate-turreted and sharp, featuring highly convex whorls. These whorls are longitudinally plicated (folded), distinctly carinated (keeled), and encircled transversely by overlapping, imbricated scales. Around the keel, a series of triangular, recurved, and oblong laminae are spirally arranged. The outer lip is sulcate (grooved), the tail is extended, and the siphonal canal is wide open. [5]

Distribution

The species occurs in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, off the coasts of Sardinia, Greece and Turkey.[1][2][3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Babelomurex benoiti (Tiberi, 1855). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 24 April 2010.
  2. 1 2 Gofas, S. (2010). Babelomurex benoiti (Tiberi, 1855). In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2012) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:234156
  3. 1 2 3 "Babelomurex benoiti". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 12 January 2019.
  4. ↑ Babelomurex benoiti Image at NMR Pics
  5. ↑ Tiberi, N. (1855). Descrizione di alcuni testacei viventi viventi nel Mediterraneo. Lettere di Nicola Tiberi. Stabilimento tipografico del cav. Gaetano Nobile, Napoli, 16 p. + 2 pl Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  • Giannuzzi-Savelli, R.; Pusateri, F.; Palmeri, A.; Ebreo, C. (2003). Atlante delle conchiglie marine del Mediterraneo Vol. 4 parte prima (Neogastropoda: Muricoidea). Roma: Edizioni Evolver. 298 pp., 745 color figs.
  • Garrigues, B. (2025). Some Coralliophilinae from the deep waters of the north Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, with a description of a new species from the Meteor Seamounts and the rediscovery of Pseudomurex perfectus. Xenophora Taxonomy. 47: 3-34.


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