Vokesimurex messorius

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Vokesimurex messorius
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shell of Vokesimurex messorius (museum specimens at MNHN, Paris)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Muricidae
Genus: Vokesimurex
Species:
V. messorius
Binomial name
Vokesimurex messorius
(G.B. Sowerby II, 1841)
Synonyms [1]
  • Murex funiculatusReeve, 1845
  • Murex messoriusSowerby II, 1841
  • Murex samuiSunderland, 2003
  • Murex sutilisC. A. White, 1887

Vokesimurex messorius, common name the Mesorius murex, 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

The size of the shell varies between 43 mm and 90 mm.

(Described as Murex sutilisC. A. White, 1887) The shell is rather small. The body is subglobose. The spire is about equal in height to the breadth of the body portion of the last whorl, exclusive of the aperture. There are three principal varices to each whorl. They are strong, prominent, laterally reflexed, crenulated, and bearing a few slender spines upon their edges, which are arranged in three continuous rows from the apex to the base of the beak. The spaces between the rows of principal varices are each traversed by three or four distinct but slightly raised, secondary varices, and also by numerous revolving raised lines, which are continuous with the crenulations of the varices. The beak is long and slender, its length equal to rather more than two-fifths the full length of the shell from the apex to the point of the beak. The aperture is suboval, a little longer than wide. The length from the apex to the point of the beak is 38 millimeters. The greatest transverse diameter, including two of the varice is, 17 millimeters. [2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Caribbean Sea off Honduras to Suriname and French Guiana; and off St Lucia and Saint Vincent (Antilles), Martinique and Guadeloupe.

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