Muricodrupa anaxares

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Muricodrupa anaxares
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Muricidae
Genus: Muricodrupa
Species:
M. anaxares
Binomial name
Muricodrupa anaxares
(Kiener, 1835)
Synonyms [1]
  • Drupa anaxares(Kiener, 1835)
  • Morula (Morula) anaxares(Kiener, 1835)
  • Morula anaxares(Kiener, 1835)
  • Morula anaxeres[sic] (misspelling)
  • Purpura anaxaresKiener, 1835 (basionym)
  • Ricinula anaxares(Kiener, 1835)
  • Sistrum anaxares(Kiener, 1835)

Muricodrupa anaxares is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. [2] Before 2019, [3] it was classified as Morula anaxares. [1]

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Description

The shell size varies between 13 mm and 26 mm

Distribution

This species is found at rocky shores in the Red Sea, in the Indian Ocean off Aldabra, Chagos, Kenya, Madagascar, the Mascarene Basin and Tanzania and in the Indo-West Pacific; off Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia).

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References

  1. 1 2 Morula anaxares (Kiener, 1835) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 15 December 2018.
  2. Muricodrupa anaxares (Kiener, 1835) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 6 february 2018.
  3. Houart, Roland; Zuccon, Dario; Puillandre, Nicolas (9 April 2019). "Description of new genera and new species of Ergalataxinae (Gastropoda: Muricidae)".{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)