Babelomurex microspinosus
| Babelomurex microspinosus | |
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| Shell of Babelomurex microspinosus (holotype at the Smithsonian Institution) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Genus: | Babelomurex |
| Species: | B. microspinosus |
| Binomial name | |
| Babelomurex microspinosus Kosuge, 1988 | |
Babelomurex microspinosus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]
Distribution
This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Somalia and Mozambique.
References
- ↑ Babelomurex microspinosus Kosuge, 1988. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 24 April 2010.
- Kosuge, S. (1988). Descriptions of two new species of the family Coralliophilidae in the collection of the U.S. National Museum (Nat. Hist.), Smithsonian Institution with some note on Coralliophila spinosa Dall, 1889 (Gastropoda). Bulletin of the Institute of Malacology. 2(7): 113-116, pls. 43-45.