Stramonita rustica

Stramonita rustica is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]

Stramonita rustica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:
Muricoidea
Family:
Muricidae
Subfamily:
Rapaninae
Genus:
Stramonita
Species:
S. rustica
Binomial name
Stramonita rustica
(Lamarck, 1822)
Synonyms[1]
  • Purpura albocincta Küster, 1860
  • Purpura fasciata Reeve, 1846
  • Purpura minor Hidalgo, 1893
  • Purpura rustica Lamarck, 1822
  • Stramonita bicarinata (Blainville, 1832)

Distribution

This species occurs in the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico and the Lesser Antilles.

References
  1. Stramonita rustica (Lamarck, 1822). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 July 2012.
  • Rosenberg, G., F. Moretzsohn, and E. F. García. 2009. Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, pp. 579–699 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.
  • Claremont M., Williams S.T., Barraclough T.G. & Reid D.G. (2011) The geographic scale of speciation in a marine snail with high dispersal potential. Journal of Biogeography 38: 1016–1032.


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