Coralliophila brevis

Coralliophila brevis
Coralliophila brevis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Muricidae
Subfamily: Coralliophilinae
Genus: Coralliophila
Species: C. brevis
Binomial name
Coralliophila brevis
(de Blainville, 1832)[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Purpura brevis Blainville, 1832
  • Pyrula squamulata Philippi, 1836
  • Pyrula santangeli Maravigna, 1840
  • Pyrula borbonica Maravigna, 1842
  • Coralliophila alboranensis Smriglio & Mariottini, 2003

Coralliophila brevis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[2]

Contents

Description

Distribution

References

  1. ^ Blainville H. de (1832). Disposition méthodique des espèces récentes et fossiles des genres Pourpre, Ricinule, Licorne et Concholepas de M. de Lamarck, et description des espèces nouvelles ou peu connues, faisant partie de la collection du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. Nouvelles Annales du Muséum http://www.marbef.org/data/geoabout.phphttp://www.marbef.org/data/geoabout.phpd'Histoire Naturelle 1: 75 pp.. World Register of Marine Species, accessed 24 April 2010.
  2. ^ a b Coralliophila brevis (de Blainville, 1832).  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=139398 on 24 April 2010.

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