Muricodrupa anaxares
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| taxon = Muricodrupa anaxares
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| synonyms = * Drupa anaxares (Kiener, 1835)
- Morula (Morula) anaxares (Kiener, 1835)
- Morula anaxares (Kiener, 1835)
- Morula anaxeres [sic] (misspelling)
- Purpura anaxares Kiener, 1835 (basionym)
- Ricinula anaxares (Kiener, 1835)
- Sistrum anaxares (Kiener, 1835)
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Muricodrupa anaxares is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.{{WRMS species|1335433|Muricodrupa anaxares (Kiener, 1835)||6 february 2018}} Before 2019,{{Cite journal |last=Houart|first=Roland |last2=Zuccon|first2=Dario |last3=Puillandre|first3=Nicolas |date=2019-04-09 |title=Description of new genera and new species of Ergalataxinae (Gastropoda: Muricidae) |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332301456}} it was classified as Morula anaxares.{{WRMS species|600714|Morula anaxares (Kiener, 1835)||15 December 2018}}
Description
The shell size varies between 13 mm and 26 mm. It comes in all colours, but mostly in brown.
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Distribution
This species is found at rocky shores in the Red Sea, in the Indian Ocean off Aldabra, Chagos, Kenya, Madagascar, the Mascarene Basin and Tanzania and in the Indo-West Pacific; off Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia).
References
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- Kiener, L.C. 1836. Spécies général et Iconographie des coquilles vivantes, comprenant la collection du Muséum d'histoire Naturelle de Paris, la collection de Lamarck, celle du Prince Massena (appartenant maintenant a M. le Baron B. Delessert) et les découvertes récentes des voyageurs. Paris : Ballière Vol. 8 1–151, pls 1–46.
- Reeve, L.A. 1846. Monograph of the genus Purpura. pls 1–13 in Reeve, L.A. (ed). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 3.
- Spry, J.F. (1961). The sea shells of Dar es Salaam: Gastropods. Tanganyika Notes and Records 56
- MacNae, W. & M. Kalk (eds) (1958). A natural history of Inhaca Island, Mozambique. Witwatersrand Univ. Press, Johannesburg. I-iv, 163 pp.
- Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Mollusques testaces marins de Madagascar. Faune des Colonies Francaises, Tome III
- Kilburn, R.N. & Rippey, E. (1982) Sea Shells of Southern Africa. Macmillan South Africa, Johannesburg, xi + 249 pp. page(s): 87
- Wilson, B. 1994. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp.
- Tan, K.S. 1995. Taxonomy of Thais and Morula (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Muricidae) in Singapore and Vicinity. 546 pp.
- Middelfart, P. 1997. An illustrated checklist of Muricidae (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia) from the Andaman Sea, Thailand. Phuket Marine Biological Center Special Publication 17(2): 349–388
- Houart R., Kilburn R.N. & Marais A.P. (2010) Muricidae. pp. 176–270, in: Marais A.P. & Seccombe A.D. (eds), Identification guide to the seashells of South Africa. Volume 1. Groenkloof: Centre for Molluscan Studies. 376 pp.
External links
- {{Gastropods.com|key=2|id=4762|title=Morula (Morula) anaxeres|access-date=16 January 2019}}
- [https://science.mnhn.fr/institution/mnhn/collection/im/item/2000-35 MNHN, Paris: syntype]
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Category:Gastropods described in 1835
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