Ceratostoma monoceros

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Ceratostoma monoceros
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Muricidae
Genus: Ceratostoma
Species:
C. monoceros
Binomial name
Ceratostoma monoceros
(Sowerby, 1841)
Synonyms [1]

Murex aciculigerValenciennes, 1846
Murex monocerosSowerby, 1841

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

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