| Phyllocoma platyca | |
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| Shell of Phyllocoma platyca (holotype at MNHN, Paris) | |
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| Phyllocoma platyca Houart, 2001[1] | |
Phyllocoma (Phyllocoma) platyca is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[2]
Description
The length of the shell attains 19.4 mm.
Distribution
This marine species occurs off Wallis and Futuna in the South Pacific.
References
- ↑ Houart (2001). Mem. Mus. Nat. Hist. Nat. 185 : 243–269. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 24 April 2010.
- ↑ Phyllocoma (Phyllocoma) platyca Houart, 2001. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 January 2011.
- Houart R. (2001). Ingensia gen. nov. and eleven new species of Muricidae (Gastropoda) from New Caledonia, Vanuatu, and Wallis and Futuna Islands. pp. 243-269, in: Bouchet P. & Marshall B.A. (eds.) Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos, 22. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 185: 243–269
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