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Vokesimurex gallinago

{{Short description|Species of gastropod}}

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| image_caption = Five views of a shell of Vokesimurex gallinago gallinago (Sowerby, 1903)

| taxon = Vokesimurex gallinago

| authority = (G.B. Sowerby III, 1903)

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  • Haustellum gallinago (G. B. Sowerby III, 1903)
  • Murex gallinago G. B. Sowerby III, 1903 (original combination)
  • Siratus gallinago (G. B. Sowerby III, 1903)

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Vokesimurex gallinago, common name the hen murex, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.{{WRMS species|405207|Vokesimurex gallinago (Sowerby III, 1903)||25 April 2010}}

;Subspecies:

  • Vokesimurex gallinago fernandesi (Houart, 1990)
  • Vokesimurex gallinago gallinago (G. B. Sowerby III, 1903) (synonyms:Murex senkakuensis Shikama, 1973, Murex rectirostris senkakuensis Shikama, 1973)

Description

The size of the shell varies between 40 mm and 100 mm.

(Original description) This is an elegantly formed and delicately coloured shell, somewhat resembling, on a small scale, Vokesimurex malabaricus (E. A. Smith, 1894) but with the longitudinal ribs or plications much stouter and less numerous. It bears also some resemblance to Vokesimurex rectirostris (G. B. Sowerby II, 1841), but the varices are not spinose, or at least scarcely perceptibly so. In the squamose rather than spinose character of the base of the varices the shell appears to have some affinity with those of the Siratus motacilla (Gmelin, 1791) group.[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29993262 Sowerby, G. B. III. (1903). Descriptions of fourteen new species of marine molluscs from Japan. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. Series 7, 12: 496-501.] {{PD-notice}}

Distribution

This Indo-Pacific marine species occurs from Mozambique to Southeast Asia and Japan.

References

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  • 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.

External links

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  • {{Gastropods.com|key=5|id=2915|title=Vokesimurex gallinago gallinago|access-date=16 January 2019}}

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Category:Gastropods described in 1903

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