Babelomurex princeps
| Babelomurex princeps | |
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| Shell of Babelomurex princeps (Melville, 1912), measuring 21.2 mm in length, trawled at 75 fathoms off Punta Engano, Mactan Island, in the Philippines | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Genus: | Babelomurex |
| Species: | B. princeps |
| Binomial name | |
| Babelomurex princeps (Melvill, 1912) | |
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Babelomurex princeps is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]
Description
The shell size varies between 25 mm and 45 mm
(Original description in Latin) The shell is oblong-fusiform and narrowly perforate. It is white or straw-colored, and is occasionally tinted with a pale hyacinth-blue. There are 7 to 8 whorls, of which the 2 apical whorls are minute and glassy. The three whorls immediately following these are spirally adorned with thick nodules and are angled at the middle. The last two whorls are broadly and regularly ornamented at the middle with triangular spines that are recurved, frondose, and scaly. The entire surface of the body whorl is finely striated, and, from below the periphery down to the base, it is decorated with seven spiral, imbricated rows of scales. The aperture is ovate and white. The outer lip is thin and multi-toothed on the exterior. The columella is nearly straight, and the siphonal canal is slightly recurved. The length of the holotype is 37 mm, and the width is 25 mm. [2]
Distribution
This species is distributed in the Persian Gulf, the Indian Ocean along Mauritius and in the Pacific Ocean along the Philippines
References
- 1 2 Babelomurex princeps (Melvill, 1912). 8 March 2011. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
- ↑ Melvill, J.C. (1912). "Descriptions of thirty-three new species of Gastropoda from the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, and North Arabian Sea". Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 10 (3): 248. Retrieved 3 June 2026.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- Kosuge, S. (1980). Descriptions of six new species of the genus Latiaxis from the Philippines Sea. Bulletin of the Institute of Malacology, Tōkyō. 1(3): 41-45, pls 9-10.
- Oliverio M. (2008) Coralliophilinae (Neogastropoda: Muricidae) from the southwest Pacific. In: V. Héros, R.H. Cowie & P. Bouchet (eds), Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos 25. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 196: 481–585. page(s): 539.
- Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). [Checklist of marine biota of China seas]. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
External links
- "Babelomurex (Babelomurex) princeps". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 8 March 2011.