Phyllonotus pomum
Phyllonotus pomum | |
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Phyllonotus pomum (Gmelin, 1791) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Family: | Muricidae |
Genus: | Phyllonotus |
Species: | P. pomum |
Binomial name | |
Phyllonotus pomum (Gmelin, 1791) | |
Synonyms[1] | |
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Phyllonotus pomum, the apple murex, is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]
Description
The adult shell's dimensions range from 44 mm to 133 mm.
Original description of Lovell Augustus Reeve (published 1843):
The shell is fusiformly oblong, thick, solid, very rough throughout, transversely conspicuously ridged, tuberculated between the varices ; three-varicose, varices tuberculated with a complicated mass of laminae ; fulvous or reddish brown, columella and interior of the aperture ochraceous yellow, columellar lip slightly wrinkled, edge erected, vividly stained, especially at the upper part, with very black brown ; outer lip strongly toothed, ornamented with three black-brown spots ; canal rather short, compressed, recurved."[2]
Distribution
This species occurs in the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico and the Lesser Antilles; in the Atlantic Ocean between North Carolina and Northern Brazil.
References
- ^ a b Phyllonotus pomum (Gmelin, 1791). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 23 June 2011.
- ^ Lovell Augustus Reeve (1845). Conchologia Iconica: Or, Illustrations of the Shells of Molluscous Animals: III. Reeve. p. 41.
External links
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- "Phyllonotus pomum". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 23 June 2011.
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