Lataxiena cumella

Lataxiena cumella
Lataxiena cumella shells
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Muricidae
Genus:	Lataxiena
Species:	L. cumella
Binomial name
Lataxiena cumella (Jousseaume, 1898)
Synonyms [1]
Cumella cumellaJousseaume, 1898 Ocinebra kochianaSowerby, 1900

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

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Philippines.

References

1. Lataxiena cumella (Jousseaume, 1898) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 24 April 2010.

• Jousseaume, F., 1898. Description de coquilles nouvelles. Le Naturaliste 12(2) no 276: 201

External links

• MNHN, Paris:syntype
• Sowerby, G. B., III. (1900). Descriptions of new species of marine Mollusca collected by the late Otto Koch at the Island of Cebu, Philippines. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 4(3): 126–129, pl. 11