Dermomurex glicksteini
| Dermomurex glicksteini | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Genus: | Dermomurex |
| Species: | D. glicksteini
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| Binomial name | |
| Dermomurex glicksteini Petuch, 1987
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Dermomurex glicksteini is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]
Description
Original description: "Shell elongated, fusiform, with elevated spire and well developed siphonal canal; whorls with 3 large blade like varices; intervarical areas with 1 large, keeled axial nob, whorls ornamented with numerous raised spiral threads; aperture large, oval in shape; inner edge of lip with 6 large red denticles; shell color mottled khaki-green and tan, overlaid with darker tannish brown banding along the suture and on siphonal canal; intritacalx thick, chalky, light tan in color; interior of aperture light tan."[2]
The shell grows to a length of 16 mm.
Distribution
Locus typicus: "(Trawled from) 150 metres depth, off Palm Beach Island, Palm Beach County, Florida, USA."[3]
This marine species occurs off Eastern Florida, USA and the Bermudas.
References
- ^ a b Dermomurex glicksteini Petuch, 1987. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 24 November 2012.
- ^ Petuch, E.J. 1987-New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas, page 25. Publ: CERF
- ^ Petuch, E.J. 1987-New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas, page 25. Publ: CERF
- Merle D., Garrigues B. & Pointier J.-P. (2011) Fossil and Recent Muricidae of the world. Part Muricinae. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 648 pp. page(s): 214