Favartia bojadorensis

Favartia bojadorensis
Favartia (Murexiella) bojadorensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Muricidae
Subfamily: Muricopsinae
Genus: Favartia
Subgenus: Murexiella
Species: F. bojadorensis
Binomial name
Favartia (Murexiella) bojadorensis
(Locard, 1897)
Synonyms[1]
  • Hexaplex bojadorensis (Locard, 1897)
  • Murex bojadorensis Locard, 1897
  • Murexiella asteriae Nicolay, 1972
  • Murexiella bojadorensis (Locard, 1897)

Favartia (Murexiella) bojadorensis, common name : the Bojador murex, 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 30 mm and 100 mm

Distribution

This species is distributed in European waters and in the Atlantic Ocean along the Canary Islands, Ghana and Angola

References

  1. ^ a b Favartia (Murexiella) bojadorensis (Locard, 1897).  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=407999 on 27 November 2010.
  • Gofas, S.; Afonso, J.P.; Brandào, M. (Ed.). (S.a.). Conchas e Moluscos de Angola = Coquillages et Mollusques d'Angola. [Shells and molluscs of Angola]. Universidade Agostinho / Elf Aquitaine Angola: Angola. 140 pp.

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