Thais alouina

Thais (Mancinella) alouina, common name : the Alou rock shell, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]

Thais (Mancinella) alouina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:
Muricoidea
Family:
Muricidae
Subfamily:
Rapaninae
Genus:
Thais
Subgenus:
Mancinella
Species:
T. (Mancinella) alouina
Binomial name
Thais (Mancinella) alouina
(Röding, 1798)
Synonyms[1]
  • Drupa glacialis Röding, P.F., 1798
  • Mancinella aculeata Link, 1807
  • Mancinella alouina (Röding, 1798)
  • Murex pyrum Dillwyn, 1817
  • Purpura gemmulata Lamarck, 1816
  • Purpura mancinella (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Thais gemmulata
  • Volema alouina Röding, 1798
  • Volema glacialis Röding, 1798

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 30 mm and 61 mm.

Distribution

This species is distributed in the Indian Ocean along Kenya, the Mascarene Basin and Tanzania; in the Indo-West Pacific.

References
  1. Thais (Mancinella) alouina (Röding, 1798). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 24 April 2010.
  • Spry, J.F. (1961). The sea shells of Dar es Salaam: Gastropods. Tanganyika Notes and Records 56
  • Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice
  • Branch, G.M. et al. (2002). Two Oceans. 5th impression. David Philip, Cate Town & Johannesburg
  • "Mancinella alouina". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 11 May 2011.


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