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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