Hexaplex rosarium

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Hexaplex rosarium
Shell of Hexaplex rosarium (Röding, 1798), with operculum, measuring 65.8 mm in height, trawled at 200 m off Ueno, in Japan.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Muricidae
Subfamily: Muricinae
Genus: Hexaplex
Subgenus: Trunculariopsis
Species: H. rosarium
Binomial name
Hexaplex rosarium
(Röding, 1798)
Synonyms[1]

Murex ananus Hinds, 1844
Murex beckii Philippi, 1847
Murex melonulus Lamarck, 1822
Murex sowerbianus Poirier, 1883
Purpura imperialis Schumacher, 1817
Purpura rosarium Röding, 1798

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

Description

Distribution

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Hexaplex rosarium (Röding, 1798).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 24 April 2010.

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