| Hexaplex fulvescens | |
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| Shell of Hexaplex fulvescens (Sowerby, 1834), with operculum, measuring 116.9 mm in height, off Brownsville, in Texas. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Subfamily: | Muricinae |
| Genus: | Hexaplex |
| Subgenus: | Trunculariopsis |
| Species: | H. fulvescens |
| Binomial name | |
| Hexaplex fulvescens (Sowerby, 1834) |
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Murex burryi Clench & Farfante, 1945 |
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Hexaplex fulvescens is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]
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Native to the western Atlantic Ocean from North Carolina to Florida and also present in the Gulf of Mexico from Florida west to Texas.