Latiaxis pilsbryi

Latiaxis pilsbryi[2] is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.

Latiaxis pilsbryi
Shell of Latiaxis pilsbryi Hirase, 1908, height 28 mm, locality unknown.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:
Muricoidea
Family:
Muricidae
Subfamily:
Coralliophilinae
Genus:
Latiaxis
Species:
L. pilsbryi
Binomial name
Latiaxis pilsbryi
Hirase, 1908[1]
Shell of Latiaxis pilsbryi Hirase, 1908, measuring 23.5 mm in length, taken at 80 fathoms in tangle nets off Cebu Island in the Philippines.

References
  1. Hirase Y. (1908) "Appendix – On Japanese marine Mollusca (II), with the description of new species of Muricidae and Buccinidae". Conchological Magazine (Kyoto) 2(12): 69–73, pl. 41, figs. 239–240.
  2. Latiaxis pilsbryi Hirase, 1908. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 December 2010.
  • Oliverio M. (2008) Coralliophilinae (Neogastropoda: Muricidae) from the southwest Pacific. In: V. Héros, R.H. Cowie & P. Bouchet (eds), Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos 25. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 196: 481–585, at page 554.


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