Phyllocoma platyca

Phyllocoma (Phyllocoma) platyca is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[2]

Phyllocoma platyca
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:
Muricoidea
Family:
Muricidae
Subfamily:
Muricinae
Genus:
Phyllocoma
Species:
P. platyca
Binomial name
Phyllocoma platyca
Houart, 2001[1]

Description

Distribution

This species is distributed along Wallis and Futuna in the South Pacific.

References
  1. Houart (2001). Mem. Mus. Nat. Hist. Nat. 185 : 243-269. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 24 April 2010.
  2. Phyllocoma (Phyllocoma) platyca Houart, 2001. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 January 2011.
  • Houart R. (2001). Ingensia gen. nov. and eleven new species of Muricidae (Gastropoda) from New Caledonia, Vanuatu, and Wallis and Futuna Islands. pp. 243-269, in: Bouchet P. & Marshall B.A. (eds.) Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos, 22. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 185: 243–269


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