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Muricopsis (Muricopsis) caribbaea (Bartsch & Rehder, 1939) | |
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Muricopsis (Muricopsis) caribbaea is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. [1]
The shell attains a length of 15 mm.
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This species is distributed in the Gulf of Mexico along Florida, in the Caribbean Sea along Mexico and Venezuela; in the Lesser Antilles
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