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Vokesimurex
''Vokesimurex'' is a genus of sea snails, marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusks in the family (biology), family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. Species Species within the genus ''Vokesimurex'' include: * ''Vokesimurex aliquantulus'' Houart & Héros, 2015 * ''Vokesimurex anniae'' (M. Smith, 1940) * ''Vokesimurex bayeri'' Petuch, 2001 * ''Vokesimurex bazarutensis'' S. G. Veldsman & J. H. Veldsman, 2021 * ''Vokesimurex blakeanus'' (Vokes, 1967) * ''Vokesimurex bobyini'' (Kosuge, 1983) * ''Vokesimurex cabritii'' (Bernardi, 1859) * ''Vokesimurex chrysostoma'' (G.B. Sowerby II, 1834) * † ''Vokesimurex coulsoni'' (Ladd, 1977) * ''Vokesimurex danilai'' (Houart, 1992) * ''Vokesimurex dentifer'' (Watson, 1883) * ''Vokesimurex dolichourus'' (Ponder & Vokes, 1988) * ''Vokesimurex donmoorei'' (Bullis, 1964) * ''Vokesimurex elenensis'' (Dall, 1909) * ''Vokesimurex gallinago'' (G.B. Sowerby III, 1903) * ''Vokesimurex garciai'' (Petuch, 1987) * ''Vokesimurex hamanni'' (Myers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vokesimurex Gallinago
''Vokesimurex gallinago'', common name the hen murex, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family (biology), family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. ;Subspecies: * ''Vokesimurex gallinago fernandesi'' (Houart, 1990) * ''Vokesimurex gallinago gallinago'' (G. B. Sowerby III, 1903) (synonyms:''Murex senkakuensis'' Shikama, 1973, ''Murex rectirostris senkakuensis'' Shikama, 1973) Description The size of the shell varies between 40 mm and 100 mm. (Original description) This is an elegantly formed and delicately coloured shell, somewhat resembling, on a small scale, ''Vokesimurex malabaricus'' (E. A. Smith, 1894) but with the longitudinal ribs or plications much stouter and less numerous. It bears also some resemblance to ''Vokesimurex rectirostris'' (G. B. Sowerby II, 1841), but the varices are not spinose, or at least scarcely perceptibly so. In the squamose rather than spinose character of the base of the varices the shell appears to ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |