Babelomurex tumidus
| Babelomurex tumidus | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Subfamily: | Coralliophilinae |
| Genus: | Babelomurex |
| Species: | B. tumidus |
| Binomial name | |
| Babelomurex tumidus (Kosuge, 1980) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Babelomurex tumidus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. [1]
Distribution
This marine species occurs off Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines and New Caledonia (on the Norfolk Ridge).
References
- 1 2 Babelomurex tumidus (Kosuge, 1980). 24 April 2010. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
- 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: Héros, V. et al. (Ed.) Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos 25. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (1993). 196: 481-585.