Favartia alveata

Favartia alveata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Muricidae
Subfamily: Muricopsinae
Genus: Favartia
Subgenus: Favartia
Species: F. alveata
Binomial name
Favartia alveata
(Kiener, 1842)
Synonyms[1]

Aspella elegans sensu Perrilliat Montoya Vokes, 1971
Murex alveatus Kiener, 1842
Murex intermedius C. B. Adams, 1850

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

Contents

Description

Distribution

References

  1. ^ a b Favartia alveata (Kiener, 1842).  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=407941 on 24 April 2010.