Babelomurex mansfieldi
| Babelomurex mansfieldi | |
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| Shell of Babelomurex mansfieldi (specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Genus: | Babelomurex |
| Species: | B. mansfieldi |
| Binomial name | |
| Babelomurex mansfieldi (McGinty, 1940) | |
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Babelomurex mansfieldi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]
Description
The length of the holotype attains 20 mm, its diameter 13 mm. [2]
Distribution
This species occurs in the Caribbean Sea off Florida, Guadeloupe and Martinique; also in the Atlantic Ocean off Brazil.
Fossils of this marine species were found in southern Florida.
References
- ↑ Babelomurex mansfieldi (McGinty, 1940). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 24 April 2010.
- ↑ McGinty, T.L. (1940). "New land and marine Tertiary shells from southern Florida". The Nautilus. 53 (3): 83–84. Retrieved 1 June 2026.
- Garrigues, B., Lamy, D. & Zuccon, D. (2022). The Coralliophilinae from the Antilles and French Guiana with the description of six new species. Xenophora Taxonomy. 37: 4-53.
- Rosenberg, G.; Moretzsohn, F.; García, E. F. (2009). Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.