Neorapana grandis

Neorapana grandis
Conservation status
Data Deficient (IUCN 2.3)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Muricidae
Genus:	Neorapana
Species:	N. grandis
Binomial name
Neorapana grandis Sowerby, 1835
Synonyms
Purpura grayi Kiener, 1835-36

Neorapana grandis is a species of large predatory tropical sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the rock snails.

Distribution

This species is endemic to Ecuador, specifically to the Galapagos Islands.

Description

The shell of this species is 60 to 90 mm (2½ to 3½ inches) long, with brown scaly spiral ribbing.

References

1. ^ Finet Y. (1996). Neorapana grandis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.

• A. Myra Keen, Sea shells of tropical west America, 1971, Stanford University Press, Stanford, California

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