Vokesimurex gallinago, common name the hen murex, 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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| Five views of a shell of Vokesimurex gallinago gallinago (Sowerby, 1903) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Genus: | Vokesimurex |
| Species: | V. gallinago
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| Vokesimurex gallinago (G.B. Sowerby III, 1903)
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- Subspecies
- Vokesimurex gallinago fernandesi (Houart, 1990)
- Vokesimurex gallinago gallinago (G. B. Sowerby III, 1903) (synonyms:Murex senkakuensis Shikama, 1973, Murex rectirostris senkakuensis Shikama, 1973)
Description edit
The size of the shell varies between 40 mm and 100 mm.
(Original description) This is an elegantly formed and delicately coloured shell, somewhat resembling, on a small scale, Vokesimurex malabaricus (E. A. Smith, 1894) but with the longitudinal ribs or plications much stouter and less numerous. It bears also some resemblance to Vokesimurex rectirostris (G. B. Sowerby II, 1841), but the varices are not spinose, or at least scarcely perceptibly so. In the squamose rather than spinose character of the base of the varices the shell appears to have some affinity with those of the Siratus motacilla (Gmelin, 1791) group.[2]
Distribution edit
This Indo-Pacific marine species occurs from Mozambique to Southeast Asia and Japan.
References edit
- ^ a b Vokesimurex gallinago (Sowerby III, 1903). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
- ^ Sowerby, G. B. III. (1903). Descriptions of fourteen new species of marine molluscs from Japan. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. Series 7, 12: 496-501.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- Merle D., Garrigues B. & Pointier J.-P. (2011) Fossil and Recent Muricidae of the world. Part Muricinae. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 648 pp
- Houart R. (2014). Living Muricidae of the world. Muricinae. Murex, Promurex, Haustellum, Bolinus, Vokesimurex and Siratus. Harxheim: ConchBooks. 197 pp.
External links edit
- "Vokesimurex gallinago gallinago". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
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