| Indothais malayensis | |
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| Indothais malayensis shell | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Genus: | Indothais |
| Species: | I. malayensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Indothais malayensis (Tan & Sigurdsson, 1996) [1] | |
| Synonyms [2] | |
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Indothais malayensis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. [2]
The length of the shell attains 41 mm.
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This species occurs in the Taiwan Strait.
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