Murex carbonnieri
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- Acupurpura carbonnieri Jousseaume, 1881 (original combination)
- Murex (Murex) carbonnieri (Jousseaume, 1881)· accepted, alternate representation
- Murex maculatus A. H. Verrill, 1950 (invalid: junior homonym of Murex maculatus Reeve, 1845)
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Murex carbonnieri, also known as Carbonnier's murex, is a species of large predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Muricidae, the rock snails or murex snails.Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (Ed.); Frýda J., Hausdorf B., Ponder W., Valdes A. & Warén A. 2005. Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia: International Journal of Malacology, 47(1-2). ConchBooks: Hackenheim, Germany. {{ISBN|3-925919-72-4}}. ISSN 0076-2997. 397 pp. http://www.vliz.be/Vmdcdata/imis2/ref.php?refid=78278
Description
The length of the shell varies between 60 mm and 125 mm.
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Distribution
This species origin is in the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden and the United Arab Emirates; also off Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and the Philippines and Thailand; off Ethiopia and Eritrea.
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External links
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- [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33928760 Jousseaume, F. (1881). Diagnoses de mollusques nouveaux. Le Naturaliste. 3(44): 349-350]
- [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8520467#page/150/mode/1up Verrill A.H. (1950). New marine mollusks from Dominica, B. W. I. The Nautilus. 63: 126-128, pls 9-10]
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