Morula anaxares

Morula anaxares
Morula (Morula) anaxares
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Muricidae
Subfamily: Ergalataxinae
Genus: Morula
Subgenus: Morula
Species: M. anaxares
Binomial name
Morula (Morula) anaxares
(Kiener, 1835)
Synonyms[1]
  • Drupa anaxares (Kiener, 1835)
  • Purpura anaxares Kiener, 1835 (basionym)
  • Ricinula anaxares (Kiener, 1835)
  • Sistrum anaxares (Kiener, 1835)

Morula (Morula) anaxares is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]

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Description

The shell size varies between 13 mm and 26 mm

Distribution

This species is found at rocky shores in the Red Sea, in the Indian Ocean along Aldabra, Chagos, Kenya, Madagascar, the Mascarene Basin and Tanzania and in the Indo-West Pacific.

References

  1. ^ a b Morula anaxares (Kiener, 1835).  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=208552 on 24 April 2010.
  • Spry, J.F. (1961). The sea shells of Dar es Salaam: Gastropods. Tanganyika Notes and Records 56
  • MacNae, W. & M. Kalk (eds) (1958). A natural history of Inhaca Island, Mozambique. Witwatersrand Univ. Press, Johannesburg. I-iv, 163 pp.
  • Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Mollusques testaces marins de Madagascar. Faune des Colonies Francaises, Tome III

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