- Neorapana grandis
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Neorapana grandis Conservation status Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda (unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade NeogastropodaSuperfamily: Muricoidea Family: Muricidae Genus: Neorapana Species: N. grandis Binomial name Neorapana grandis
Sowerby, 1835Synonyms 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
- ^ 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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