| Pygmaepterys richardbinghami | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Genus: | Pygmaepterys |
| Species: | P. richardbinghami |
| Binomial name | |
| Pygmaepterys richardbinghami (Petuch, 1987) | |
| Synonyms [1] | |
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Pygmaepterys richardbinghami is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. [1]
Original description: "Shell fusiform, elongated with elevated spire; shell with 8 varices per whorl; body whorl ornamented with 5 large, evenly-spaced, raised cords; siphonal canal with 4 cords; spire whorls with 3 spiral cords; shoulder tabulate, sharp-angled; varices thin, winglike, with 5 large bladelike serrations; serrations correspond to cords in intervarical regions; posteriormost serration largest, spinelike, pointed posteriorly; aperture small, oval; outer lip thickened, with 5 large denticles along inner edge; shell color tan, with 2 thin reddish-brown bands, 1 around subsutural region and 1 around break between body whorl and siphonal canal; spire whorls with reddish-brown sub-sutural band; interior of aperture pale tan." [2]
The shell size is 17 mm.
Locus typicus: "Off Palm Beach Island, Palm Beach, Florida, USA." [3]
This species occurs in the Gulf of Mexico off Eastern Florida
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