Vitularia miliaris

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

Vitularia miliaris
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:
Muricoidea
Family:
Muricidae
Subfamily:
Muricopsinae
Genus:
Vitularia
Species:
V. miliaris
Binomial name
Vitularia miliaris
(Gmelin, 1791)
Synonyms[1]

Murex alutaceus Menke, 1829
Murex miliaris Gmelin, 1791
Murex purpura Deshayes, 1843
Murex vitulinus Lamarck, 1816
Purpura scabra Schumacher, 1817
Transtrafer longmani Iredale, 1929
Vitularia asiaticus Kuroda in Kira, 1962
Vitulina tuberculata Swainson, 1840

References
  1. Vitularia miliaris (Gmelin, 1791). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.

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