| 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]
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The shell size varies between 50 mm and 100 mm
This species is distributed in the Red Sea and in the Indo-West Pacific