Biology:Muricopsis deformis
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Short description: Species of gastropod
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| Photograph of holotype in the Natural History Museum, London. | |
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| G. B. Sowerby II's illustration in Reeve's initial description. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Genus: | Muricopsis |
| Species: | M. deformis
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| Binomial name | |
| Muricopsis deformis (Reeve, 1846)
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| Synonyms[4] | |
Muricopsis deformis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[4]
Description
Distribution
The type locality for its junior synonym, Risomurex mosquitensis is Puerto Vargas, Cahuita National Park, Mosquito Gulf, Costa Rica.[2]
References
- ↑ Reeve, Lovell Augustus (1846). "Ricinula deformis". Monograph of the Genus Ricinula. Conchologia Iconica, or, Illustrations of the Shells of Molluscous Animals. 3. London: Reeve, Brothers. Plate VI, Species 44. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11118781.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kemperman, Th. C. M.; Coomans, H .E. (1984). "Studies on West Indian Marine Molluscs, 1. Risomurex mosquitensis, a New Caribbean species, with Remarks on the Status of the Genus Risomurex (Gastropoda: Muricidae)". Bulletin Zoologisch Museum 10 (1): 1–7. ISSN 0165-9464. http://repository.naturalis.nl/record/505442.
- ↑ Dall, W. H. (1889). "Report on the Mollusca. Part II. – Gastropoda and Scaphopoda". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy 18: 217. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4339998.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Muricopsis (Risomurex) deformis (Reeve, 1846). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 24 April 2010.
Wikidata ☰ Q6938526 entry
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