Vokesimurex woodringi

Vokesimurex woodringi, common name Woodring's murex, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]

Vokesimurex woodringi
Shell of Vokesimurex woodringi (museum specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:
Muricoidea
Family:
Muricidae
Subfamily:
Muricinae
Genus:
Vokesimurex
Species:
V. woodringi
Binomial name
Vokesimurex woodringi
(Clench & Pérez Farfante, 1945)
Synonyms[1]
  • Murex woodringi Clench & Pérez Farfante, 1945
  • Murex woodringi var. gustaviensis Nowell-Usticke, 1969

Description

The size of the shell varies between 30 mm and 70 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Caribbean Sea .

References
  1. Vokesimurex woodringi (Clench & Pérez Farfante, 1945). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
  • Houart R. (2014). Living Muricidae of the world. Muricinae. Murex, Promurex, Haustellum, Bolinus, Vokesimurex and Siratus. Harxheim: ConchBooks. 197 pp.
  • "Vokesimurex woodringi". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.


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