Xymene ambiguus
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| 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) | |
| Synonyms | |
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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.
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Apertural view of the same shell of Xymene ambiguus (female)
References
- Powell A W B, New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
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