Muricanthus callidinus

Muricanthus callidinus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]

Muricanthus callidinus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Muricidae
Subfamily: Muricinae
Genus: Muricanthus
Species:
M. callidinus
Binomial name
Muricanthus callidinus
Berry, 1958
Synonyms[1]

Murex nitidus Broderip, 1833 (invalid: junior homonym of Murex nitidus Pilkington, 1804)

Distribution

This marine species occurs from Guatemala to Costa Rica to off Puerto Pizarro, Tumbes Province, Peru.

References

  1. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Muricanthus callidinus Berry, 1958. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=406199 on 2021-08-25
  • Berry, S.S. (1958) Notices of new Eastern Pacific Mollusca.-II. Leaflets in Malacology, 1, 83–90.
  • Merle D., Garrigues B. & Pointier J.-P. (2011) Fossil and Recent Muricidae of the world. Part Muricinae. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 648 pp. note: treated as synonym of M. ambiguus
  • Houart, R. & Wiedrick, S.G. (2021). Review of Muricanthus Swainson, 1840 and some Recent species assigned to Hexaplex s.s. Perry, 1810, Hexaplex (Trunculariopsis) Cossmann, 1921 and Phyllonotus Swainson, 1833. Novapex. 22(1-2): 25-42.


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