Murexsul harasewychi

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

Murexsul harasewychi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Muricidae
Genus: Murexsul
Species:
M. harasewychi
Binomial name
Murexsul harasewychi
Petuch, 1987

Description

Original description: "Shell small for genus, thin, fragile, very elongated and fusiform, with high elevated spire; siphonal canal long, roughly one-third total length; 6 varices per whorl; shoulder sharply angled; body whorl sculptured with 5 large fimbriated cords; area between suture and shoulder without large cords but with numerous fine spiral threads; shoulder of each varix with 1 small, bifurcated spine; 5 spiral cords overlap onto varices, producing low, fimbriated knobs; varices on siphonal canal with 2 short spines; aperture round-oval, with raised peristome; inner edge of lip without denticles; shell color two-toned, with body whorl and spire being yellow-orange and with siphonal canal being brown; early whorls, protoconch, and tips of shoulder spines pale reddish-brown; interior of aperture and peristome white."[2]

Distribution

Locus typicus: "Off Cabo La Vela, Goajira Peninsula, Colombia."[3]

References
  1. Murexsul harasewychi Petuch, 1987. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 24 April 2010.
  2. Petuch, E.J. 1987-New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas, page 100. Publ: CERF
  3. Petuch, E.J. 1987-New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas, page 100. Publ: CERF


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