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Morula echinata

Morula echinata, common name the prickled-armed ricinula, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]

Morula echinata
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Muricidae
Genus: Morula
Species:
M. echinata
Binomial name
Morula echinata
(Reeve, 1846)
Synonyms[1]
  • Engina monilifera Pease, 1860
  • Engina nodulifera Pease, W.H. 1860
  • Ricinula echinata Reeve, 1846

Description edit

The length of the shell varies between 7 mm and 10 mm.

Distribution edit

This marine species occurs in the tropical Indo-West Pacific; also off Taiwan and Australia (Queensland).

References edit

  1. ^ a b Morula echinata (Reeve, 1846). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 24 April 2010.
  • Reeve, L.A. 1846. Monograph of the genus Ricinula. pls 1–6 in Reeve, L.A. (ed). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 3. Plate 6 (fig. 54) and unnumbered page
  • Pease, W.H. 1860. Descriptions of new species of Mollusca from the Sandwich Islands, Part II. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 28: 141-148
  • Cernohorsky, W.O. 1969. The Muricidae of Fiji. Part 2. Subfamily Thaidinae. Veliger 11(4): 293-315
  • Cernohorsky, W.O. 1978. Tropical Pacific Marine Shells. Sydney : Pacific Publications 352 pp., 68 pls.
  • Wilson, B. 1994. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp.
  • Houart, R. 2002. Comments on a group of small Morula s.s. species (Gastropoda: Muricidae: Rapaninae) from the Indo-Pacific with the description of two new species. Novapex 3(4): 97-118

External links edit

  • "Morula (Morula) echinata". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.


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