Morula (Morula) anaxares | |
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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: | Morula |
Subgenus: | Morula |
Species: | M. anaxares |
Binomial name | |
Morula (Morula) anaxares (Kiener, 1835) |
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Morula (Morula) anaxares is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]
Contents |
The shell size varies between 13 mm and 26 mm
This species is found at rocky shores in the Red Sea, in the Indian Ocean along Aldabra, Chagos, Kenya, Madagascar, the Mascarene Basin and Tanzania and in the Indo-West Pacific.