Biology:Neothais marginatra

Short description: Species of gastropod

Neothais marginatra
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Muricidae
Subfamily:	Rapaninae
Genus:	Neothais
Species:	N. marginatra
Binomial name
Neothais marginatra (Blainville, 1832)
Synonyms
Cronia marginatra (Blainville, 1832) Drupa marginatra (Blainville, 1832) Ergalatax foliacea Conrad, 1837 Morula marginatra (Blainville, 1832) Morula (Morula) fusca (Küster, 1862) Murex brunneolabrum Dall, 1923 Purpura cancellata Kiener, 1836 Purpura infumata Hombron & Jacquinot, 1854 Purpura marginatra Blainville, 1832 Purpura (Sistrum) fusco-nigra Dunker, 1871 Ricinula fusca Küster, 1862 Sistrum affine Pease, 1862 Sistrum indigoferum Melvill, 1901 Sistrum marginatrum (Blainville, 1832)

Neothais marginatra, common name : the brownish drupe, 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 20 mm and 45 mm

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Aldabra, the Mascarene Basin, the coast of South Africa and Mozambique; in the Pacific Ocean off Hawaii , the Fiji Islands, Samoan Islands and Polynesia; off Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia).

References

• Küster, H.C. 1862. Die Gattung Ricinula. 1–24, pls 1–5 in Kobelt, W. & Küster, H.C. (eds.). Systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet. Nürnberg : Bauer & Raspe.
• Melvill, J.C. 1901. A few further remarks upon the Erythraen molluscan fauna, with descriptions of seven species of Aden, in the collection of Commander E.R. Shopland, RIM. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 42: 550–556
• Taylor, J.D. (1971). Intertidal Zonation at Aldabra Atoll. Phil. Trns. Roy. Soc. Lond. B. 260, 173–213
• Taylor, J.D. (1973). Provisional list of the mollusca of Aldabra Atoll
• MacNae, W. & M. Kalk (eds) (1958). A natural history of Inhaca Island, Mozambique. Witwatersrand Univ. Press, Johannesburg. I-iv, 163 pp
• Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice
• Tan, K.S. 1995. Taxonomy of Thais and Morula (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Muricidae) in Singapore and Vicinity. 546 pp.
• Tan, K.S. & Chou, L.M. 2000. A Guide to Common Seashells of Singapore. Singapore : Singapore Science Centre 168 pp.
• Claremont M., Vermeij G.J., Williams S.T. & Reid D.G. (2013) Global phylogeny and new classification of the Rapaninae (Gastropoda: Muricidae), dominant molluscan predators on tropical rocky seashores. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 66: 91–102

External links

• "Semiricinula muricina" (in en). Gastropods.com. http://www.gastropods.com/2/Shell_7192.shtml. 

Wikidata ☰ Q13889377 entry