Axymene aucklandicus

Xymene aucklandicus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Muricidae
Subfamily:	Pagudilinae
Genus:	Axymene
Species:	A. aucklandicus
Binomial name
Axymene aucklandicus (E. A. Smith, 1902)
Synonyms
Axymene turbator Finlay, 1927 Axymene traversi aucklandica Fleming, 1951 Buccinulum pertinax Finlay, 1927 Euthria aucklandica E. A. Smith, 1902 Trophon columnaris Suter, 1908 Trophon erectus Suter, 1909 Xymene aucklandicus (E. A. Smith, 1902)

Axymene aucklandicus is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Muricidae, the rock snails or murex snails. ^[1]

References

1. Marshall, B.; Rosenberg, G. (2014). Axymene aucklandicus (E. A. Smith, 1902). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=598753 on 2015-01-08

• Powell A W B, New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
• Beu, A.G. 2011 Marine Molluscs of oxygen isotope stages of the last 2 million years in New Zealand. Part 4. Gastropoda (Ptenoglossa, Neogastropoda, Heterobranchia). Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 41, 1–153.