Murex trapa

Murex trapa
Murex trapa
Murex trapa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Muricidae
Subfamily: Muricinae
Genus: Murex
Species: M. trapa
Binomial name
Murex trapa
Roding, 1798
Synonyms[1]

Murex duplicatus sensu Chemnitz Pusch, 1837
Murex martinianus Reeve, 1845
Murex rarispina Lamarck, 1822
Murex unindentatus Sowerby, 1834

Murex trapa, common name the rare-spined murex, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc of the family Muricidae, the rock snails.

References

  1. ^ Murex (Murex) trapa Roding, 1798).  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=404879 on 29 March 2010.