Muricopsis chiarae

Muricopsis (Muricopsis) chiarae is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]

Muricopsis (Muricopsis) chiarae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:
Muricoidea
Family:
Muricidae
Subfamily:
Muricopsinae
Genus:
Muricopsis
Subgenus:
Muricopsis
Species:
M. chiarae
Binomial name
Muricopsis (Muricopsis) chiarae
Bozzetti, 1991
Synonyms[1]

Muricopsis chiarae Bozzetti, 1991

Description

Original description: "Shell medium sized for the Genus, fusiform. Spire high, slender, with five moderately convex teleoconch whorls. Protoconch unknown. Suture distinct. Aperture moderately large, lenticular. Aperture varix expanded with uneven profile. Outer lip thickened, with crenulated margin reflecting sculpture of preceding shell surface.
Inside of aperture with six denticles. Columellar lip callous, well separated, with two plicae on adapical part, one on abapical part, otherwise smooth. Sculpture consisting of eight tuberculated axial ribs on each teleoconch whorl and of numerous dense spiral striae of a microgranulose structure. Granules blend together on tubercules, giving rise to smooth surface.
Ground colour red; spiral striae dark brown on axial ribs, with dotted colouring on intratubercular area and uniform colouring on tubercules. Peristome pale pink."[2]

Distribution

Locus typicus: "Off Capo Ras Hafun, Horn of Africa, Somalia."[3]

This marine species occurs off Somalia

References
  1. Muricopsis (Muricopsis) chiarae Bozzetti, 1991. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 24 April 2010.
  2. Bozzetti, L. 1991-La Conchiglia, Year XXII, No. 260, July/September, page 44.
  3. Bozzetti, L. 1991-La Conchiglia, Year XXII, No. 260, July/September, page 44.


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