Hexaplex duplex

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Hexaplex duplex
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Shell of Hexaplex duplex Röding, 1798, with operculum, measuring 93.5 mm in height, from off the mouth of the Joel River, in Senegal, Africa.
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Muricidae
Genus: Hexaplex
Species:
H. duplex
Binomial name
Hexaplex duplex
Röding, 1798
Synonyms
  • Hexaplex (Trunculariopsis) duplex(Röding, 1798) · accepted, alternate representation
  • Hexaplex (Trunculariopsis) duplex canariensis(Nordsieck, 1975)
  • Hexaplex (Trunculariopsis) duplex duplex(Röding, 1798)
  • Hexaplex turbinatus(Lamarck, 1822)
  • Murex eurystomusSwainson, 1833
  • Murex hoplitesP. Fischer, 1876
  • Murex minimaDautzenberg, 1910
  • Murex saxatilisLinnaeus (auctt.)
  • Murex turbinatusLamarck, 1822
  • Phyllonotus duplex(Röding, 1798)
  • Purpura duplexRöding, 1798 (original combination)
  • Trunculariopsis canariensisNordsieck, 1975
  • Trunculariopsis trunculus canariensisF. Nordsieck, 1975

Hexaplex duplex 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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Subspecies

Both subspecies are now considered synonyms of Hexaplex duplex.

Description

The length of the shell varies between 30 and 229 millimetres (1.2 and 9.0 in). It contains six to eight varices. These are singly spinous, the spines somewhat frondose, those on the shoulder of the whorls usually larger and curved. There are no interstitial ribs. The color of the shell is light yellowish brown, usually more or less pink-banded. The aperture is pink, with three or four darker bands. [4]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Red Sea and in the Atlantic Ocean off the Cape Verdes and the Canary Islands; and from Senegal to Angola. It has also been described as Murex turbinatus from the Mediterranean Sea.

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References

  1. Hexaplex duplex Röding, 1798 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 15 December 2018.
  2. Houart, R. (2009). Hexaplex (Trunculariopsis) duplex duplex (Röding, 1798). Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=406152 on 18 May 2010
  3. Houart, R. (2009). Hexaplex (Trunculariopsis) duplex canariensis (Nordsieck, 1975). Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=406154 on 18 May 2010
  4. G.W. Tryon (1880) Manual of Conchology II, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (described as Murex saxatilis)