| Muricopsis (Risomurex) rosea | |
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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: | Muricopsis |
| Subgenus: | Risomurex |
| Species: | M. rosea |
| Binomial name | |
| Muricopsis (Risomurex) rosea (Reeve, 1846) |
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Muricopsis (Risomurex) rosea, common name : the pink drupe, 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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The shell grows to a length of 15 mm
This species is distributed in the Caribbean Sea; the Gulf of Mexico; in the Indian Ocean along the Mascarene Basin.