Tenguella musiva
Tenguella musiva, common names mosaic purpura, musical drupe, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1][2]
| Tenguella musiva | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Subfamily: | Ergalataxinae |
| Genus: | Tenguella |
| Species: | T. musiva |
| Binomial name | |
| Tenguella musiva (Kiener, 1835) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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References
- MolluscaBase (2018). Tenguella musiva (Kiener, 1835). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=716638 on 2019-01-06
- Britton, J. C. (1990). The intertidal crevice fauna of Tolo Channel and Harbour, New Territories, Hong Kong. In: Morton B, editor. Proceedings of the Second International Marine Biological Workshop: The Marine Flora and Fauna of Hong Kong and Southern China . The Marine flora and fauna of Hong Kong and southern china II, Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong. 2: 803-835.
External links
- Poupre mosaique, Purpura musiva original description in Latin and French. Louis Charles Kiener, Spécies général et iconographie des coquilles vivantes : comprenant la collection du Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Paris, la collection Lamarck, celle du Prince Masséna ... et les déecouvertes réecentes des voyageurs, tome 1, part 3, page 38. Illustration, plate 9, figure 22.
- Illustration (fig. 52) by Sowerby in Reeve's Conchologia Iconica (1845).
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