Xymene ambiguus | |
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A shell of Xymene ambiguus (female) | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
Family: | Muricidae |
Subfamily: | Trophoninae |
Genus: | Xymene |
Species: | X. ambiguus |
Binomial name | |
Xymene ambiguus (Philippi, 1844) |
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Synonyms | |
Fusus ambiguus Philippi, 1844 |
Xymene ambiguus common name the large trophon, is a species of large predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Muricidae, the rock snails or murex snails.