Favartia (Favartia) levicula | |
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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. levicula |
Binomial name | |
Favartia (Favartia) levicula (Dall, 1889) |
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Favartia (Favartia) levicula is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]
Contents |
The shell grows to a length of 18 mm
This species is distributed in the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea and in the Atlantic Ocean from North Carolina to Florida.