Babelomurex kawamurai

Babelomurex kawamurai is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]

Babelomurex kawamurai
A shell of Babelomurex kawamurai (Kira, 1959), 38.9 mm in length, trawled at 450 m depth in the Mozambique Channel in Africa.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:
Muricoidea
Family:
Muricidae
Subfamily:
Coralliophilinae
Genus:
Babelomurex
Species:
B. kawamurai
Binomial name
Babelomurex kawamurai
(Kira, 1959)

References
  1. Babelomurex kawamurai (Kira, 1959). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 24 April 2010.


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