''Babelomurex neocaledonicus'' is a
species of
sea snail
Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the ...
, a marine
gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusc
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is esti ...
in the
family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
Description
Distribution
New Caledonia, deep water
References
* Kosuge, S. & Oliverio, M., 2001. A new coralliophiline species from the southwest Pacific (Neogastropda: Muricidae: Coralliophilinae). Journal of Conchology 37(3): 285–290
External links
MNHN, Paris: holotype
neocaledonicus
Gastropods described in 2001
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