Phycothais botanica

Phycothais botanica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Muricidae
Genus:	Phycothais
Species:	P. botanica
Binomial name
Phycothais botanica (Hedley, 1918)
Synonyms [1]
Lepsiella botanicaHedley, 1918 Purpura botanicaHedley, 1918 (original combination) Purpura neglectaAngas, 1867 Purpura (Stramonita) neglecta Angas, G.F. 1867 † Ricinula subreticulataTate, 1888 (uncertain synonym)

Phycothais botanica is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. ^[1]

Distribution

This marine species is endemic to Australia and occurs off New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania and Victoria.

References

1. Phycothais botanica Hedley, 1918 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 24 April 2010.

• Hedley, C. 1918. A checklist of the marine fauna of New South Wales. Part 1. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 51: M1-M120.
• Angas, G.F. 1867. Descriptions of thirty-two new species of marine shells from the coast of New South Wales. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1867: 110–117, pl. 13
• Tate, R. 1888. The gastropods of the older Tertiary of Australia. Part I. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 10: 91–176

External links

• Tan K. S. (2003) Phylogenetic analysis and taxonomy of some southern Australian and New Zealand Muricidae (Mollusca: Neogastropoda). Journal of Natural History 37(8): 911–1028