Thaisella forbesii

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Thaisella forbesii
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Muricidae
Subfamily: Rapaninae
Genus: Thaisella
Species:
T. forbesii
Binomial name
Thaisella forbesii
(Dunker, 1853)
Synonyms [1]
  • Purpura forbesiiDunker, 1853
  • Stramonita haemastoma forbesiR.W. Dunker, 1853
  • Thais (Thaisella) langiClench & R. D. Turner, 1948
  • Thais forbesiiDunker
  • Thais langiClench & R. D. Turner, 1948

Thaisella forbesii is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. [1] [2]

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Description

The length of the shell attains 38 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs off the Ivory Coast.

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References

  1. 1 2 MolluscaBase (2018). Thaisella forbesii (Dunker, 1853). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=574253 on 2019-01-06
  2. Claremont M., Williams S.T., Barraclough T.G. & Reid D.G. (2011) The geographic scale of speciation in a marine snail with high dispersal potential. Journal of Biogeography 38: 1016-1032.