Phyllocoma platyca

Phyllocoma (Phyllocoma) platyca is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[2]

Phyllocoma platyca
Shell of Phyllocoma platyca (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:
Muricoidea
Family:
Muricidae
Subfamily:
Muricinae
Genus:
Phyllocoma
Species:
P. platyca
Binomial name
Phyllocoma platyca
Houart, 2001[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 19.4 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Wallis and Futuna in the South Pacific.

References
  1. Houart (2001). Mem. Mus. Nat. Hist. Nat. 185 : 243–269. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 24 April 2010.
  2. Phyllocoma (Phyllocoma) platyca Houart, 2001. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 January 2011.
  • Houart R. (2001). Ingensia gen. nov. and eleven new species of Muricidae (Gastropoda) from New Caledonia, Vanuatu, and Wallis and Futuna Islands. pp. 243-269, in: Bouchet P. & Marshall B.A. (eds.) Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos, 22. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 185: 243–269


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