Biology:Muricopsis zeteki

Short description: Species of gastropod

Muricopsis zeteki
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Muricidae
Subfamily:	Muricopsinae
Genus:	Muricopsis
Species:	M. zeteki
Binomial name
Muricopsis zeteki Hertlein & Strong, 1951
Synonyms
Murex aculeatus Wood, 1828 (invalid: junior homonym of Murex aculeatus Lamarck, 1822; Murex dubius is a replacement name) Murex dubius G.B. Sowerby II, 1841 (invalid: junior homonym of Murex dubius Dillwyn, 1817; Muricopsis zeteki is a replacement name) Murexsul zeteki (Hertlein & Strong, 1951) Muricidea dubius (G. B. Sowerby II, 1841)

Muricopsis zeteki is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.

External links

• Wood, W. (1828). Supplement to the Index Testaceologicus; or A catalogue of Shells, British and Foreign. Richard Taylor, London. Iv [+1 + 59 pp., plates 1-8,]
• Hertlein L.G. & Strong A.M. (1951). Eastern Pacific expeditions of the New York Zoological Society. XLIII. Mollusks from the west coast of Mexico and Central America. Part X. Zoologica. 36(2): 67-120, 11 pls

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