Mancinella alouina, common names alou rock shell, alou rock snail, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]

Mancinella alouina
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Muricidae
Subfamily: Rapaninae
Genus: Mancinella
Species:
M. alouina
Binomial name
Mancinella alouina
(Röding, 1798)
Synonyms[1]
  • Drupella mancinella (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Mancinella aculeata Link, 1807
  • Mancinella mancinella (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Murex mancinella Linnaeus, 1758
  • Murex pyrum Dillwyn, 1817
  • Purpura gemmulata Lamarck, 1816
  • Purpura mancinella (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Thais (Mancinella) alouina (Röding, 1798)
  • Thais (Mancinella) mancinella (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Thais gemmulata (Lamarck, 1816)
  • Thais mancinella (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Volema alouina Röding, 1798
  • Volema glacialis Röding, 1798

Description

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The size of an adult shell varies between 30 mm and 61 mm.

Distribution

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This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Kenya, the Mascarene Basin and Tanzania; in the Indo-West Pacific.

References

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  1. ^ a b MolluscaBase (2018). Mancinella alouina (Röding, 1798). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=714168 on 2019-01-06
  • Spry, J.F. (1961). The sea shells of Dar es Salaam: Gastropods. Tanganyika Notes and Records 56
  • Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice
  • Branch, G.M. et al. (2002). Two Oceans. 5th impression. David Philip, Cate Town & Johannesburg
  • 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.
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Juvenile