Latiaxis pilsbryi[2] is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.

Latiaxis pilsbryi
Shell of Latiaxis pilsbryi Hirase, 1908, height 28 mm, locality unknown.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Muricidae
Genus: Latiaxis
Species:
L. pilsbryi
Binomial name
Latiaxis pilsbryi
Hirase, 1908[1]
Shell of Latiaxis pilsbryi Hirase, 1908, measuring 23.5 mm in length, taken at 80 fathoms in tangle nets off Cebu Island in the Philippines.

References

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  1. ^ Hirase Y. (1908) "Appendix – On Japanese marine Mollusca (II), with the description of new species of Muricidae and Buccinidae". Conchological Magazine (Kyoto) 2(12): 69–73, pl. 41, figs. 239–240.
  2. ^ Latiaxis pilsbryi Hirase, 1908. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 December 2010.
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  • Oliverio M. (2008) Coralliophilinae (Neogastropoda: Muricidae) from the southwest Pacific. In: V. Héros, R.H. Cowie & P. Bouchet (eds), Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos 25. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 196: 481–585, at page 554.