| Hexaplex rosarium | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Genus: | Hexaplex |
| Species: | H. rosarium |
| Binomial name | |
| Hexaplex rosarium (Röding, 1798) | |
| Synonyms [1] | |
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Hexaplex rosarium, commonly known as the rosy-mouth murex, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. [1]
The size of an adult shell varies between 50 millimetres (2.0 in) and 100 millimetres (3.9 in).
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The rosy-mouth murex reproduces through sexual reproduction. [2]
This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean from Cape Verde to Angola.
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