Pterynotus elongatus | |
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Pterynotus elongatus | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
Family: | Muricidae |
Subfamily: | Muricinae |
Genus: | Pterynotus |
Species: | P. elongatus |
Binomial name | |
Pterynotus elongatus (Lightfoot, 1786) |
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Pterynotus elongatus , common name : the club murex, 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 50 mm and 100 mm
This species is distributed in the Red Sea and in the Indo-West Pacific