Scabrotrophon fabricii

Scabrotrophon fabricii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Muricidae
Subfamily: Trophoninae
Genus: Scabrotrophon
Species: S. fabricii
Binomial name
Scabrotrophon fabricii
(Møller, 1842)
Synonyms[1]
  • Boreotrophon craticulatus (O. Fabricus, 1780)
  • Murex borealis Reeve, 1845
  • Tritonium craticulatum Fabricius, 1780
  • Trophon craticulatum Fabricius, 1780
  • Trophon fabricii Beck in Møller, 1842
  • Trophon heuglini Mörch, 1876
  • Trophon interstriatus Sowerby, 1880
  • Trophonopsis fabricii Beck in Møller, 1842

Scabrotrophon fabricii is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 22 mm and 61 mm.

Distribution

This species is distributed in European waters, the Northwest Atlantic Ocean and in the Gulf of St. Lawrence (Canada)

References


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