Biology:Thais alouina

Short description: Species of gastropod

Thais (Mancinella) alouina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Muricidae
Subfamily:	Rapaninae
Genus:	Thais
Subgenus:	Mancinella
Species:	T. (Mancinella) alouina
Binomial name
Thais (Mancinella) alouina (Röding, 1798)
Synonyms
Drupa glacialis Röding, P.F., 1798 Mancinella aculeata Link, 1807 Mancinella alouina (Röding, 1798) Murex pyrum Dillwyn, 1817 Purpura gemmulata Lamarck, 1816 Purpura mancinella (Linnaeus, 1758) Thais gemmulata Volema alouina Röding, 1798 Volema glacialis Röding, 1798

Thais (Mancinella) alouina, common name : the Alou rock shell, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 30 mm and 61 mm.

Distribution

This species is distributed in the Indian Ocean along Kenya, the Mascarene Basin and Tanzania; in the Indo-West Pacific.

References

• Spry, J.F. (1961). The sea shells of Dar es Salaam: Gastropods. Tanganyika Notes and Records 56
• Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice
• Branch, G.M. et al. (2002). Two Oceans. 5th impression. David Philip, Cate Town & Johannesburg

External links

• "Mancinella alouina" (in en). Gastropods.com. http://www.gastropods.com/8/Shell_4238.shtml. 

Wikidata ☰ Q7709292 entry