Hexaplex duplex

Hexaplex duplex
'Hexaplex (Trunculariopsis) duplex
Shell of Hexaplex duplex Röding, 1798, with operculum, measuring 93.5 mm in height, from off the mouth of the Joel River, in Senegal, Africa.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Muricidae
Subfamily: Muricinae
Genus: Hexaplex
Subgenus: Trunculariopsis
Species: H. duplex
Trinomial name
Hexaplex (Trunculariopsis) duplex
Röding, 1798

Hexaplex (Trunculariopsis) duplex 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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Subspecies

  • Hexaplex duplex duplex (Röding, 1798) - synonyms:[2] Murex eurystomus Swainson, 1833; Murex hoplites Fischer, 1876; Murex minima Dautzenberg, 1910; Murex saxatilis Linnaeus (auctt.); Purpura duplex Röding, 1798
  • Hexaplex duplex canariensis (Nordsieck, 1975) - synonyms:[3] Murex turbinatus Lamarck, 1822; Trunculariopsis canariensis Nordsieck, 1975

Description

Distribution

References

  1. ^ Hexaplex (Trunculariopsis) duplex Röding, 1798.  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=406151 on 10 November 2011.
  2. ^ Houart, R. (2009). Hexaplex (Trunculariopsis) duplex duplex (Röding, 1798). Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=406152 on 2010-05-18
  3. ^ Houart, R. (2009). Hexaplex (Trunculariopsis) duplex canariensis (Nordsieck, 1975). Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=406154 on 2010-05-18

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