Murexsul sunderlandi

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

Murexsul sunderlandi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Muricidae
Genus: Murexsul
Species:
M. sunderlandi
Binomial name
Murexsul sunderlandi
(Petuch, 1987)
Synonyms[1]

Muricopsis sunderlandi Petuch, 1987

Description

Original description: "Shell very thin, lightweight, with high protracted spire and long, straight siphonal canal; shell with 3 varices per whorl; varices thin, low, with 3 thin spines; spine on shoulder longest; siphonal canal with 1 short spine near junction with body whorl; aperture large, flaring; parietal shield large, erect, nonadherent; shell color pale tan overlaid with 8-10 reddish-brown spiral lines; intervarical regions with 5 low, faintly nodose axial ribs; area between spines on varices with numerous reddish-brown ribs; ribs correspond to spiral lines of intervarical regions; interior of aperture white, with reddish-brown lines showing through."[2]

Distribution

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

References
  1. Murexsul sunderlandi (Petuch, 1987). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 24 April 2010.
  2. Petuch, E.J. 1987-New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas, pages 98, 99. Publ: CERF
  3. Petuch, E.J. New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas, page 98. 1987. Publ: CERF


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