Muricopsis deformis

Muricopsis (Risomurex) deformis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]

Muricopsis (Risomurex) deformis
Photograph of holotype in the Natural History Museum, London.
G. B. Sowerby II's illustration in Reeve's initial description.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Muricidae
Subfamily:	Muricopsinae
Genus:	Muricopsis
Subgenus:	Risomurex
Species:	M. deformis
Binomial name
Muricopsis (Risomurex) deformis (Reeve, 1846)
Synonyms[1]
Ricinula deformis Reeve, 1846[2] Risomurex mosquitensis Kemperman & Coomans, 1984[3] Sistrum ferrugineus rubidum Dall, 1889[4]

Distribution

The type locality for its junior synonym, Risomurex mosquitensis is Puerto Vargas, Cahuita National Park, Mosquito Gulf, Costa Rica.[3]

References

1. Muricopsis (Risomurex) deformis (Reeve, 1846). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 24 April 2010.
2. Reeve, Lovell Augustus (1846). "Ricinula deformis". Monograph of the Genus Ricinula. Conchologia Iconica, or, Illustrations of the Shells of Molluscous Animals. 3. London: Reeve, Brothers. Plate VI, Species 44.
3. Kemperman, Th. C. M.; Coomans, H .E. (1984). "Studies on West Indian Marine Molluscs, 1. Risomurex mosquitensis, a New Caribbean species, with Remarks on the Status of the Genus Risomurex (Gastropoda: Muricidae)". Bulletin Zoologisch Museum. 10 (1): 1–7. ISSN 0165-9464.
4. Dall, W. H. (1889). "Report on the Mollusca. Part II. – Gastropoda and Scaphopoda". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy. 18: 217.