Hexaplex kusterianus

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

Hexaplex kusterianus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:
Muricoidea
Family:
Muricidae
Subfamily:
Muricinae
Genus:
Hexaplex
Species:
H. kusterianus
Binomial name
Hexaplex kusterianus
Synonyms[1]
  • Hexaplex (Hexaplex) kusterianus (Tapparone-Canefri, 1875)
  • Hexaplex rileyi D'Attilio & Myers, 1984
  • Murex kusterianus Tapparone-Canefri, 1875 (basionym)
  • Murex spinosus A. Adams, 1853
  • Muricanthus kusterianus (Tapparone-Canefri, 1875)

Subspecies
  • Hexaplex kusterianus bozzadamii (Franchi, 1990)
  • Hexaplex kusterianus kusterianus (Tapparone-Canefri, 1875)

Description

Distribution
gollark: We could probably use the TBM to do tunnelling and deploy rails, then deploy rail removers and put in the ice, then run rails again beside the ice strip.
gollark: Oh, wait, we could just actually use rails *and* ice maybe?
gollark: Well, I can construct them *eventually*. And we could use tunnel boring machines, but then someone would have to clear up the rails.
gollark: (well, packed ice)
gollark: With ice. We wanted a cool name.

References
  1. Hexaplex kusterianus (Tapparone-Canefri, 1875). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 24 April 2010.
  • Adams A. (1853). Description of several new species of Murex, Rissoina, Planaxis and Eulima from the Comingian collection. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1851 p. 267–272
  • Merle D., Garrigues B. & Pointier J.-P. (2011) Fossil and Recent Muricidae of the world. Part Muricinae. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 648 pp.


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