Xymene huttoni

Taxobox
name = "Xymene huttoni"


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status =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
ordo = Sorbeoconcha
familia = Muricidae
genus = "Xymene"
species = "X. huttoni"
binomial = "Xymene huttoni"
binomial_authority = (Murdoch, 1900)
synonyms = "Trophon huttoni" Murdoch, 1900
"Xymene robustus" Finlay, 1924
"Zeatrophon tmetus" Finlay, 1930
"Xymene huttoni" Ponder, 1972

"Xymene huttoni" is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Muricidae, the rock snails or murex snails.

Distribution

This murex species is endemic to New Zealand.

Habitat

This uncommon snail is found at depths of about 550 m.

hell description

The shell is robust, , sculptured with massive broadly rounded axials, bluntly nodose at the peripheral angle, and overridden by strong rounded spiral cords, the interstices small deep squarish pits. The whole surface is crossed by dense wavy axial lamellae.

Coloration is white, covered by a thin pale yellowish periostracum.

Height is up to 16.5 mm, and width up to 7 mm.

References

* Powell A W B, "New Zealand Mollusca", William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1