Stramonita chocolata

Stramonita chocolata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Muricidae
Subfamily: Rapaninae
Genus: Stramonita
Species: S. chocolata
Binomial name
Stramonita chocolata
(Duclos, 1832)
Synonyms[1]

Purpura chocolata Duclos, 1832
Purpura lefevrei Lesson, 1840

Stramonita chocolata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]

Contents

Description

Distribution

References

  1. ^ a b Stramonita chocolata (Duclos, 1832).  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=397113 on 24 April 2010.