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Muricanthus
Sign in to saveMuricanthus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
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Species
Black Murex
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderNeogastropoda
- FamilyMuricidae
Habitatmarine
Observations254
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 25
- Family
- Muricidae
- Collections
- USNM, RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, UCMP, AUM, UF, NHMUK
- Recorded in
- Panama, Cameroon, Senegal, Australia, Cabo Verde, State Of Kuwait, Mexico, Ecuador
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Muricanthus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
The name Muricanthus was previously considered a synonym of Hexaplex (Muricanthus) Swainson, 1840 represented as Hexaplex Perry, 1810
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Muricanthus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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Neogastropoda
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Muricidae
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