Favartia balteata

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

Favartia balteata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:
Muricoidea
Family:
Muricidae
Subfamily:
Muricopsinae
Genus:
Favartia
Subgenus:
Favartia
Species:
F. balteata
Binomial name
Favartia balteata
(Beck in Sowerby, 1841)
Synonyms[1]

Homalocantha echiniformis Shikama, 1978
Murex balteata Beck in Sowerby, 1841
Murex crouchi var. rufescens Sowerby, 1894
Murex rusticus Reeve, 1845b
Ocinebra fuscofrondosa Schepman, 1911

References
  1. Favartia balteata (Beck in Sowerby, 1841). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 24 April 2010.


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