Babelomurex yamatoensis

Babelomurex yamatoensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Muricidae
Subfamily: Coralliophilinae
Genus: Babelomurex
Species:
B. yamatoensis
Binomial name
Babelomurex yamatoensis
Kosuge, 1986

Babelomurex yamatoensis 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 the Philippines, New Caledonia (and the Norfolk Ridge), the New Hebrides.

References

  • Kosuge, S. (1986). Some considerations on the family Coralliophilidae with descriptions of four new species. Bulletin of the Institute of Malacology, Tokyo. 2 (4): 70-75.
  • 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.
  • Chino, M. (2014). A new species of Latiaxis (Neogastropoda: Muricidae) from New Caledonia and the Norfolk Ridge. Visaya. 4(2): 9-14.