Trachypollia didyma

Trachypollia didyma
Shell of Trachypollia didyma (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Muricidae
Genus:	Trachypollia
Species:	T. didyma
Binomial name
Trachypollia didyma (Schwengel, 1943)
Synonyms [1]
Drupa didymaSchwengel, 1943 Morula didyma(Schwengel, 1943)

Trachypollia didyma is a species of small big predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. ^[1]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Florida, Bermuda, Martinique and Guadeloupe

References

1. Trachypollia didyma (Schwengel, 1943) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 24 April 2010.

• Jensen, R. H. (1997). A Checklist and Bibliography of the Marine Molluscs of Bermuda. Unp., 547 pp
• Garrigues B. & Lamy D. (2019). Inventaire des Muricidae récoltés au cours de la campagne MADIBENTHOS du MNHN en Martinique (Antilles Françaises) et description de 12 nouvelles espèces des genres Dermomurex, Attilosa, Acanthotrophon, Favartia, Muricopsis et Pygmaepterys (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Xenophora Taxonomy. 23: 22-59.

External links

• Schwengel, J. S. (1943). New marine shells from Florida. The Nautilus. 56(3): 75-78, pl. 7
• Radwin G. & D'Attilio A. (1972). The systematics of some New World muricid species (Mollusca, Gastropoda), with description of two new genera and two new species. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 85(28): 323-352.