Timbellus leucas 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 Timbellus leucas (oaralectotype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Genus: | Timbellus |
| Species: | T. leucas
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| Binomial name | |
| Timbellus leucas (Locard, 1897)
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Description edit
The size of an adult shell varies between 25 mm and 47 mm.
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Distribution edit
This species is found in European waters (along Madeira) and in the Atlantic Ocean along Southern Morocco and Senegal
References edit
- ^ a b Timbellus leucas ( Locard, 1897). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 12 April 2011.
- Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213
- Merle D., Garrigues B. & Pointier J.-P. (2011) Fossil and Recent Muricidae of the world. Part Muricinae. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 648 pp. page(s): 133
External links edit
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