Favartia balteata

Favartia balteata
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. balteata
Binomial name
Favartia balteata
(Beck in Sowerby, 1841)
Synonyms[1]

Homalocantha echiniformis Shikama, 1978
Murex balteata Beck in Sowerby, 1841
Murex crouchi var. rufescens Sowerby, 1894
Murex rusticus Reeve, 1845b
Ocinebra fuscofrondosa Schepman, 1911

Favartia balteata 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 balteata (Beck in Sowerby, 1841).  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=407942 on 24 April 2010.