Thais chocolata

Taxobox
name = "Thais chocolata"


image_width = 240px
image_caption = "Thais chocolata"
status =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo = Caenogastropoda
ordo = Sorbeoconcha
subordo = Hypsogastropoda
infraordo = Neogastropoda
superfamilia = Muricoidea
familia = Muricidae
subfamilia = Rapaninae
genus = Thais
species = "T. chocolata"
binomial = "Thais chocolata"
binomial_authority = (Duclos, 1832)

"Thais chocolata", or locate in Spanish, is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Muricidae, the rock snails.

This species is endemic to the west coast of South America (Chile, Ecuador and Peru). The snail is found in the intertidal zone and is quite common on rocky shores, both in sheltered waters and on the open coast.

References

* [http://shell.kwansei.ac.jp/~shell/pic_book/data53/r005270.html Bishogai data base]
* [http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?pid=S0717-71781998002600002&script=sci_abstract&tlng=en Investigaciones marinas]