Biology:Thais virgata

Short description: Species of gastropod

Thais (Thalessa) virgata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Muricidae
Subfamily:	Rapaninae
Genus:	Thais
Subgenus:	Thalessa
Species:	T. virgata
Binomial name
Thais (Thalessa) virgata (Dillwyn, 1817)
Synonyms
Mancinella hippocastaneum (Linnaeus, 1758) Murex hippocastanum Linnaeus, 1758 Murex plicatus Gmelin, 1791 Murex virgatus Dillwyn, 1817 Purpura distinguenda Dunker, in Dunker & Zelabor, 1866 Purpura hippocastanum Lamarck, 1822 Purpura pseudohippocastanum Dautzenberg, 1929 Thais hippocastanum Thais (Thalessa) aculeata Deshayes, G.P. & H. Milne-Edwards, 1844

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

Description

The shell size varies between 25 mm and 60 mm

Distribution

This species is distributed in the Red Sea, in the Indian Ocean along Madagascar and in the Indo-Pacific.

References

• Dautzenberg, P. (1923). Liste preliminaire des mollusques marins de Madagascar et description de deux especes nouvelles. Journal de Conchyliologie 68: 21–74
• Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Mollusques testaces marins de Madagascar. Faune des Colonies Francaises, Tome III
• Vine, P. (1986). Red Sea Invertebrates. Immel Publishing, London. 224 pp

External links

• "Thais (Thalessa) virgatus" (in en). Gastropods.com. http://www.gastropods.com/5/Shell_11405.shtml. 

Wikidata ☰ Q7709334 entry