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Vokesimurex rubidus

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| image_caption = Three shells of Vokesimurex rubidus (museum specimens at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)

| genus = Vokesimurex

| species = rubidus

| authority = (F. C. Baker, 1897)

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  • Haustellum (Vokesimurex) recurvirostris rubidus Baker, F.C., 1897
  • Haustellum (Vokesimurex) rubidum (Baker, F.C., 1897)
  • Murex citrinus M. Smith, 1940
  • Murex cracherodi G. B. Sowerby II, 1879 (nomen nudum)
  • Murex delicatus M. Smith, 1940
  • Murex marcoensis Sowerby, 1900
  • Murex messorius var. rubidus F. C. Baker, 1897 (basionym)
  • Murex panamicus Petuch, 1990
  • Murex recurvirostris rubidus F. C. Baker, 1897
  • Murex recurvirostris var. citrinus M. Smith, 1940
  • Murex recurvirostris var. delicatus M. Smith, 1940
  • Murex rubidus F.C. Baker, 1897
  • Murex rubidus panamicus Petuch, 1990
  • Vokesimurex rubidus panamicus (Petuch, 1990)
  • Vokesimurex rubidus rubidus (F. C. Baker, 1897)

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Vokesimurex rubidus, common name : the rose murex, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.{{WRMS species|405227|Vokesimurex rubidus (F. C. Baker, 1897)||25 April 2010}}

Description

The length of the shell varies between 28 mm and 68 mm.

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Distribution

This species occurs in the Gulf of Mexico, off Florida and in the Atlantic Ocean off North Carolina, the Bahamas and Brazil.

References

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  • Jensen, R. H. (1997). A Checklist and Bibliography of the Marine Molluscs of Bermuda. Unp. , 547 pp
  • Rosenberg, G., F. Moretzsohn, and E. F. García. 2009. Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, pp. 579–699 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas
  • Houart R. (2014). Living Muricidae of the world. Muricinae. Murex, Promurex, Haustellum, Bolinus, Vokesimurex and Siratus. Harxheim: ConchBooks. 197 pp.
  • Merle D., Garrigues B. & Pointier J.-P. (2011) Fossil and Recent Muricidae of the world. Part Muricinae. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 648 pp.

External links

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  • [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16100165#page/496/mode/1up Sowerby, G. B. III. (1900). Descriptions of two new species of shells: Murex marcoensis and Cassis booleyi. The Journal of Malacology. 7(7): 162-163]
  • [https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8501158 Petuch, E. J. (1990). A new molluscan faunule from the Caribbean coast of Panama. The Nautilus. 104(2): 57-71]
  • [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8519191 Smith, M. (1940). New Recent and fossil molluscs from Florida. The Nautilus. 54(2): 44-46, pl. 2, figs. 1-3, 8]
  • {{Gastropods.com|key=7|id=2897|title=Vokesimurex rubidus rubidus|access-date=16 January 2019}}

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Category:Gastropods described in 1897

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