Babelomurex memimarumai

Babelomurex memimarumai is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. [1]

Babelomurex memimarumai
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Muricidae
Subfamily: Coralliophilinae
Genus: Babelomurex
Species:
B. memimarumai
Binomial name
Babelomurex memimarumai
Kosuge, 1985

Distribution

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This marine species occurs off the Philippines, Taiwan, New Caledonia and Wallis and Futuna.

References

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  • Kosuge, S. (1985). Descriptions of fourteen new species of the family Coralliophilidae from Western Pacific. Bulletin of the Institute of Malacology, Tōkyō. 2(2-3): 48-57.
  • Oliverio, M. (2008). Coralliophilinae (Neogastropoda: Muricidae) from the southwest Pacific. in: Héros, V. et al. (Ed.) Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos 25. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (1993). 196: 481-585.
  • Steyn, D. G. & Lussi, M. (2005). Offshore shells of southern Africa: A pictorial guide to more than 750 gastropods. Published by the authors. pp. i–vi, 1–289.