Vokesimurex kiiensis
{{Short description|Species of gastropod}}
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| image = Muricidae - Vokesimurex kiiensis.JPG
| image_caption = A shell of Vokesimurex kiiensis
| taxon = Vokesimurex kiiensis
| authority = (Kira, 1959)Kira, T. (1955) Coloured Illustrations of the Shells of Japan. Hoikusha, Osaka, Japan, 204 pp.
| synonyms =
- Haustellum kiiensis (Kira, 1959)
- Murex kiiensis Kira, 1959
- Murex kiiensis f. nagaidesu Shikama, 1970
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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.{{WRMS species|405212|Vokesimurex kiiensis (Kira, 1959)||25 April 2010}}
Description
Shell of Vokesimurex kiiensis can reach a length of {{convert|50|-|100|mm}}.[http://www.eol.org/pages/4831561/overview Encyclopedia of life]{{Gastropods.com|key=0|id=1140|title=Vokesimurex kiiensis|access-date=12 January 2019}} This species has a conical, multispiral protoconch, short shoulder spines and short, crowded, blunt spines at the base of the siphonal canal.R. Houart, V. Heros [http://fliphtml5.com/pqgm/oxux/basic Muricidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from Fiji and Tonga pp. 1–44]
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.;[http://www.bagniliggia.it/WMSD/HtmSpecies/1900900065.htm WMSDB – Worldwide Mollusc Species Data Base] also off Madagascar.
References
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- 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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Category:Gastropods described in 1959
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