Thais virgata

Thais (Thalessa) virgata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Muricidae
Subfamily:	Rapaninae
Genus:	Thais
Subgenus:	Thalessa
Species:	T. virgata
Binomial name
	Thais (Thalessa) virgata; (Dillwyn, 1817)
Synonyms[1]
	Mancinella hippocastaneum (Linnaeus, 1758); Murex hippocastanum Linnaeus, 1758; Murex plicatus Gmelin, 1791; Murex virgatus Dillwyn, 1817; Purpura distinguenda Dunker, in Dunker & Zelabor, 1866; Purpura hippocastanum Lamarck, 1822; Purpura pseudohippocastanum Dautzenberg, 1929; Thais hippocastanum; Thais (Thalessa) aculeata Deshayes, G.P. & H. Milne-Edwards, 1844;

Thais (Thalessa) virgata, common name : the aculeate rock shell, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]

Description

The shell size varies between 25 mm and 60 mm

This species is distributed in the Red Sea, in the Indian Ocean along Madagascar and in the Indo-Pacific.

Dautzenberg, P. (1923). Liste preliminaire des mollusques marins de Madagascar et description de deux especes nouvelles. Journal de Conchyliologie 68: 21–74
Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Mollusques testaces marins de Madagascar. Faune des Colonies Francaises, Tome III
Vine, P. (1986). Red Sea Invertebrates. Immel Publishing, London. 224 pp

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