Actinotrophon tenuis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]
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| Shell of Actinotrophon tenuis (specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Subfamily: | Pagodulinae |
| Genus: | Actinotrophon |
| Species: | A. tenuis
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| Actinotrophon tenuis (Houart, 2001)
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Description
editThe length of the shell varies between 13 mm and 18 mm.
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Distribution
editThis marine species occurs in the southwest Pacific (Papua New Guinea, New Caledonia, Solomon Islands, Wallis and Futuna)
References
edit- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Actinotrophon tenuis (Houart, 2001). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=869743 on 2020-05-06
- Houart, R. (2001). Ingensia gen. nov. and eleven new species of Muricidae (Gastropoda) from New Caledonia, Vanuatu, and Wallis and Futuna Islands. in: P. Bouchet & B.A. Marshall (eds) Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos, volume 22. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, ser. A, Zoologie. 185: 243–269
- Houart R. & Héros V. (2016). New species and records of deep water muricids (Gastropoda: Muricidae) from Papua New Guinea. Vita Malacologica. 15: 7–34.
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