| Maculotriton serriale | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Subfamily: | Ergalataxinae |
| Genus: | Maculotriton |
| Species: | M. serriale |
| Binomial name | |
| Maculotriton serriale (Deshayes in Laborde, L.E.J. & M. Linant, 1834) |
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Buccinum pulicaris Lesson, 1842 |
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Maculotriton serriale is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]
It is difficult to find differences between Maculotriton serriale and Maculotriton digitalis (and its synonyms) when one considers shell characters only.[1]
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The shell size varies between 11 mm and 24 mm
This species is distributed in the Red Sea, in the Indian Ocean along Aldabra, Chagos, Madagascar, the Mascarene Basin and along New Zealand and North and East Australia.