Babelomurex glaber

Babelomurex glaber
Shell of Babelomurex glaber (paratype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Muricidae
Genus:	Babelomurex
Species:	B. glaber
Binomial name
Babelomurex glaber Kosuge, 1998

Babelomurex glaber is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. ^[1]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off New Caledonia.

References

1. Babelomurex glaber Kosuge, 1998 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 24 April 2010.

• Kosuge, S., 1999. Report on the family Coralliophilidae in the collection of the Natal Museum (republic of South Africa) with a description of new species (Gastropoda). Bulletin of the Institute of Malacology of Tokyo 3(6)("1998"): 83–84
• Oliverio, M. (2008). Coralliophilinae (Neogastropoda: Muricidae) from the southwest Pacific. in: Héros, V. et al. (Ed.) Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos 25. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (1993). 196: 481–585
• Kilburn R.N., Marais J.P. & Marais A.P. (2010) Coralliophilinae. pp. 272–292, in: Marais A.P. & Seccombe A.D. (eds), Identification guide to the seashells of South Africa. Volume 1. Groenkloof: Centre for Molluscan Studies. 376 pp.

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