Favartia bellini

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

Favartia bellini
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:
Muricoidae
Family:
Muricidae
Subfamily:
Muricopsinae
Genus:
Favartia
Subgenus:
Pygmaepterys
Species:
F. bellini
Binomial name
Favartia bellini
(D'Attilio & Myers, 1985)
Synonyms[1]

Pygmaepterys bellini D'Attilio & Myers, 1985

Description

Distribution

The type specimen was collected off of Okinawa, Japan.[2]

References
  1. Favartia bellini (D'Attilio & Myers, 1985). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 24 April 2010.
  2. http://www.biosci.ohio-state.edu/~molluscs/test3/pygmae1.html


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