- Phyllonotus pomum
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Phyllonotus pomum 
Two shells of Phyllonotus pomum Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda (unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade NeogastropodaSuperfamily: Muricoidea Family: Muricidae Subfamily: Muricinae Genus: Phyllonotus Species: P. pomum Binomial name Phyllonotus pomum
(Gmelin, 1791)Synonyms[1] - Chicoreus (Phyllonotus) pomum (Gmelin, 1791)
- Chicoreus pomum (Gmelin, 1791)
- Murex asperrimus Lamarck, 1822
- Murex mexicanus Petit, 1852
- Murex pomiformis Mørch, 1852
- Murex pomiformis sensu Martin Locard, 1897
- Murex pomum Gmelin, 1791 (basionym)
Phyllonotus pomum, common name the "apple murex", is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]
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Description
The size of an adult shell varies between 44 mm and 133 mm.
From the original Lovell Augustus Reeve description (published 1843):
The shell is fusiformly oblong, thick, solid, very rough throughout, transversely conspicuously ridged, tuberculated between the varices ; three-varicose, varices tuberculated with a complicated mass of laminae ; fulvous or reddish brown, columella and interior of the aperture ochraceous yellow, columellar lip slightly wrinkled, edge erected, vividly stained, especially at the upper part, with very black brown ; outer lip strongly toothed, ornamented with three black-brown spots ; canal rather short, compressed, recurved."[2]
Distribution
This species occurs in the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico and the Lesser Antilles; in the Atlantic Ocean between North Carolina and Northern Brazil.
References
- ^ a b Phyllonotus pomum (Gmelin, 1791). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=419944 on 23 June 2011.
- ^ Conchologia iconica: or, illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals, By Lovell Reeve
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