Muricopsis deformis

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Muricopsis deformis
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Photograph of holotype in the Natural History Museum, London.
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G. B. Sowerby II's illustration in Reeve's initial description.
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M. deformis
Binomial name
Muricopsis deformis
(Reeve, 1846)
Synonyms [1]
  • Muricopsis (Risomurex) deformis(Reeve, 1846)· accepted, alternate representation
  • Ricinula deformisReeve, 1846 [2]
  • Risomurex mosquitensisKemperman & Coomans, 1984 [3]
  • Sistrum ferrugineus rubidumDall, 1889 [4]

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

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Description

Distribution

The type locality for its junior synonym, Risomurex mosquitensis is Puerto Vargas, Cahuita National Park, Mosquito Gulf, Costa Rica. [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 Muricopsis (Risomurex) deformis (Reeve, 1846) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 24 April 2010.
  2. Reeve, Lovell Augustus (1846). "Ricinula deformis". Monograph of the Genus Ricinula. Conchologia Iconica, or, Illustrations of the Shells of Molluscous Animals. 3. London: Reeve, Brothers. Plate VI, Species 44.
  3. 1 2 Kemperman, Th. C. M.; Coomans, H .E. (1984). "Studies on West Indian Marine Molluscs, 1. Risomurex mosquitensis, a New Caribbean species, with Remarks on the Status of the Genus Risomurex (Gastropoda: Muricidae)". Bulletin Zoologisch Museum. 10 (1): 1–7. ISSN   0165-9464.
  4. Dall, W. H. (1889). "Report on the Mollusca. Part II. – Gastropoda and Scaphopoda". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy. 18: 217.