Trachypollia didyma

Trachypollia didyma is a species of small big predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]

Trachypollia didyma
Shell of Trachypollia didyma (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Muricidae
Genus: Trachypollia
Species:
T. didyma
Binomial name
Trachypollia didyma
(Schwengel, 1943)
Synonyms[1]
  • Drupa didyma Schwengel, 1943
  • Morula didyma (Schwengel, 1943)

Description

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Florida, Bermuda, Martinique and Guadeloupe

References

  • Jensen, R. H. (1997). A Checklist and Bibliography of the Marine Molluscs of Bermuda. Unp. , 547 pp
  • Garrigues B. & Lamy D. (2019). Inventaire des Muricidae récoltés au cours de la campagne MADIBENTHOS du MNHN en Martinique (Antilles Françaises) et description de 12 nouvelles espèces des genres Dermomurex, Attilosa, Acanthotrophon, Favartia, Muricopsis et Pygmaepterys (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Xenophora Taxonomy. 23: 22-59.


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