| Muricopsis deformis | |
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| Photograph of holotype in the Natural History Museum, London. | |
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| G. B. Sowerby II's illustration in Reeve's initial description. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Genus: | Muricopsis |
| Species: | M. deformis |
| Binomial name | |
| Muricopsis deformis (Reeve, 1846) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
Muricopsis deformis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]
Description
Distribution
The type locality for its junior synonym, Risomurex mosquitensis is Puerto Vargas, Cahuita National Park, Mosquito Gulf, Costa Rica.[3]
References
- 1 2 Muricopsis (Risomurex) deformis (Reeve, 1846). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 24 April 2010.
- ↑ Reeve, Lovell Augustus (1846). "Ricinula deformis". Monograph of the Genus Ricinula. Conchologia Iconica, or, Illustrations of the Shells of Molluscous Animals. Vol. 3. London: Reeve, Brothers. Plate VI, Species 44.
- 1 2 Kemperman, Th. C. M.; Coomans, H .E. (1984). "Studies on West Indian Marine Molluscs, 1. Risomurex mosquitensis, a New Caribbean species, with Remarks on the Status of the Genus Risomurex (Gastropoda: Muricidae)". Bulletin Zoologisch Museum. 10 (1): 1–7. ISSN 0165-9464.
- ↑ Dall, W. H. (1889). "Report on the Mollusca. Part II. – Gastropoda and Scaphopoda". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy. 18: 217.
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