Morum oniscus

Morum oniscus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Harpidae, the harp snails.[1]

Morum oniscus
Morum oniscus shell
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M. oniscus
Binomial name
Morum oniscus
(Linnaeus, 1767)
Synonyms
  • Cypraea conoidea Scopoli, 1786
  • Oniscia quadriseriata Menke, 1830
  • Oniscia triseriata Menke, 1830 (unnecessary substitute name for Strombus oniscus)
  • Strombus oniscus Linnaeus, 1767 (original combination)

Distribution

From Bermuda to southeastern Florida (Palm Beach County) and the Florida Keys, throughout the Bahamas and the entire Caribbean Sea Basin, south to the Lesser Antilles and Barbados. The species is absent from the Gulf of Mexico.

References

  1. Morum oniscus (Linnaeus, 1767). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
  • Dance, S.P. & G.T. Poppe, 1999 Family Harpidae. In : A Conchological Iconography (ConchBooks, ed.), 69 p.
  • Petuch E.J. & Berschauer D.P. (2020). A review of the genus Morum (Gastropoda: Harpidae) in the Western Atlantic, with the description of two new species from Brazil. The Festivus. 52(1): 60–69.


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