Vokesimurex kiiensis

Vokesimurex kiiensis, common name Kii murex, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[2]

Vokesimurex kiiensis
A shell of Vokesimurex kiiensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Muricidae
Subfamily: Muricinae
Genus: Vokesimurex
Species:
V. kiiensis
Binomial name
Vokesimurex kiiensis
(Kira, 1959)[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Haustellum kiiensis (Kira, 1959)
  • Murex kiiensis Kira, 1959
  • Murex kiiensis f. nagaidesu Shikama, 1970

Description

Shell of Vokesimurex kiiensis can reach a length of 50–100 millimetres (2.0–3.9 in).[3][4] This species has a conical, multispiral protoconch, short shoulder spines and short, crowded, blunt spines at the base of the siphonal canal.[5]

Distribution

This marine species is present from the Philippines, Indonesia and the East China Sea; from Southern Japan, the Fiji Islands, Papua New Guinea to Queensland, Australia, at depth of about 100 m.[4][6]; also off Madagascar.

References
  1. Kira, T. (1955) Coloured Illustrations of the Shells of Japan. Hoikusha, Osaka, Japan, 204 pp.
  2. Vokesimurex kiiensis (Kira, 1959). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
  3. Encyclopedia of life
  4. "Vokesimurex kiiensis". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 12 January 2019.
  5. R. Houart, V. Heros Muricidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from Fiji and Tonga pp. 1–44
  6. WMSDB – Worldwide Mollusc Species Data Base
  • Shikama, T. 1970a. On some noteworthy marine gastropoda from southwestern Japan (II). Science Reports of the Yokohama National University, section 2 (Geol.), 16:19-27, 1 pl.
  • Ponder, W.F. & Vokes, E.H. 1988. A revision of the Indo-West Pacific fossil and recent species of Murex s.s. and Haustellum (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Muricidae). Records of the Australian Museum 8: 1-160
  • Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp.
  • Merle D., Garrigues B. & Pointier J.-P. (2011) Fossil and Recent Muricidae of the world. Part Muricinae. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 648 pp
  • Houart R. (2014). Living Muricidae of the world. Muricinae. Murex, Promurex, Haustellum, Bolinus, Vokesimurex and Siratus. Harxheim: ConchBooks. 197 pp


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