Biology:Tylothais virgata

Short description: Species of gastropod

Tylothais virgata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Muricidae
Subfamily:	Rapaninae
Genus:	Tylothais
Species:	T. virgata
Binomial name
Tylothais virgata (Dillwyn, 1817)
Synonyms
Murex plicatus Gmelin, 1791 Murex virgatus Dillwyn, 1817 Purpura distinguenda Dunker, 1866 Purpura pseudohippocastanum Dautzenberg, 1929 Thais (Thalessa) virgata (Dillwyn, 1817) Thais distinguenda (Dunker, 1866) Thalessa distinguenda (Dunker, 1866) Thalessa virgata (Dillwyn, 1817)

Tylothais virgata 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 occurs in the Red Sea, in the Indian Ocean off Madagascar and in the Indo-Pacific; also off Thailand.

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
• Houart, R. (2017). Description of eight new species and one new genus of Muricidae (Gastropoda) from the Indo-West Pacific. Novapex. 18 (4): 81–103.

External links

• Dunker, W. & Zelebor, J. (1866). Bericht über die von der Novara-Expedition mitgebrachten Mollusken. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien. 16: 909-916.
• Gmelin J.F. (1791). Vermes. In: Gmelin J.F. (Ed.) Caroli a Linnaei Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Ed. 13. Tome 1(6). G.E. Beer, Lipsiae

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