Hexaplex kusterianus

Hexaplex kusterianus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Muricidae
Subfamily: Muricinae
Genus: Hexaplex
Species: H. kusterianus
Binomial name
Hexaplex kusterianus
Synonyms[1]
  • Hexaplex (Hexaplex) kusterianus (Tapparone-Canefri, 1875)
  • Hexaplex rileyi D'Attilio & Myers, 1984
  • Murex kusterianus Tapparone-Canefri, 1875 (basionym)
  • Murex spinosus A. Adams, 1853
  • Muricanthus kusterianus (Tapparone-Canefri, 1875)

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

Subspecies

  • Hexaplex kusterianus bozzadamii (Franchi, 1990)
  • Hexaplex kusterianus kusterianus (Tapparone-Canefri, 1875)

References

  1. 1 2 Hexaplex kusterianus (Tapparone-Canefri, 1875).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 24 April 2010.
  • Adams A. (1853). Description of several new species of Murex, Rissoina, Planaxis and Eulima from the Comingian collection. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1851 Page 267-272
  • Merle D., Garrigues B. & Pointier J.-P. (2011) Fossil and Recent Muricidae of the world. Part Muricinae. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 648 pp.


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