Favartia hidalgoi

Favartia hidalgoi, common namer : the Hidalgo's Murex, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]

Favartia hidalgoi
Shell of Favartia hidalgoi (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:
Muricoidea
Family:
Muricidae
Subfamily:
Muricopsinae
Genus:
Favartia
Species:
F. hidalgoi
Binomial name
Favartia hidalgoi
(Crosse, 1869)
Synonyms[1]
  • Favartia (Murexiella) hidalgoi (Crosse, 1869)· accepted, alternate representation
  • Murex hidalgoi Crosse, 1869
  • Murexiella hidalgoi (Crosse, 1869)

Description

The shell size varies between 22 mm and 38 mm

Distribution

This species occurs in the deeper waters of the Gulf of Mexico and in the Atlantic Ocean from North Carolina to Southern Brazil, including the Antilles and Barbados.

References
  1. Favartia (Murexiella) hidalgoi (Crosse, 1869). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 26 December 2010.
  • Garrigues B . & Lamy D. 2018, 218. Muricidae récoltés au cours de la campagne KARUBENTHOS 2 du MNHN dans les eaux profondes de Guadeloupe (Antilles Françaises) et description de trois nouvelles espèces des genres Pagodula et Pygmaepterys (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Xenophora Taxonomy 20: 34–52
  • "Murexiella (Murexiella) hidalgoi". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 26 December 2010.
  • Crosse, H. (1869). Diagnoses Molluscorum novorum. Journal de Conchyliologie. 17: 408-410


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