Babelomurex dalli is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[2]

Babelomurex dalli
Shell of Babelomurex dalli (Specimen at the Smithsonian Institution)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Muricidae
Genus: Babelomurex
Species:
B. dalli
Binomial name
Babelomurex dalli
Synonyms
  • Coralliophila deburghiae auct.: Dall (1889a, b); Springer and Bullis (1956), non Reeve,1857
  • Coralliophila deburghiae var. fusiformis Dall, 1889: 219 (synonymy uncertain)
  • Coralliophila deburghiae var. spinosa Dall, 1889
  • Latiaxis dalli Emerson and D’Attilio, 1963

Distribution

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This species occurs in the Western Atlantic, from Southern Florida to the Bahamas Islands and Guadeloupe; Central North Atlantic, Great Meteor Seamount, rare in 300-335 m. .[2]

References

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  • Garrigues, B., Lamy, D. & Zuccon, D. (2022). The Coralliophilinae from the Antilles and French Guiana with the description of six new species. Xenophora Taxonomy. 37: 4-53.
  • Oliverio M. & Gofas S. (2006). Coralliophiline diversity at mid-Atlantic seamounts (Neogastropoda, Muricidae, Coralliophilinae). Bulletin of Marine Science 79(1): 205-230
  • Rosenberg, G.; Moretzsohn, F.; García, E. F. (2009). Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.
  • Garrigues B. & Lamy D. (2017). Muricidae récoltés en Guyane au cours de l'expédition La Planète Revisitée. Xenophora Taxonomy. 15: 29-38.