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Murex carbonnieri 
Summary
Murex carbonnieri, also known as Carbonnier's murex, is a species of large predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Muricidae, the rock snails or murex snails.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Subfamily: | Muricinae |
| Genus: | Murex |
| Species: | M. carbonnieri
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| Murex carbonnieri (Jousseaume, 1881)
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Description edit
The length of the shell varies between 60 mm and 125 mm.
Distribution edit
This species origin is in the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden and the United Arab Emirates; also off Pakistan, India, Bangladesh , Sri Lanka and the Philippines and Thailand; off Ethiopia and Eritrea.
References edit
- ^ Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (Ed.); Frýda J., Hausdorf B., Ponder W., Valdes A. & Warén A. 2005. Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia: International Journal of Malacology, 47(1-2). ConchBooks: Hackenheim, Germany. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997. 397 pp. http://www.vliz.be/Vmdcdata/imis2/ref.php?refid=78278
External links edit
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Murex carbonnieri.
- Jousseaume, F. (1881). Diagnoses de mollusques nouveaux. Le Naturaliste. 3(44): 349-350
- Verrill A.H. (1950). New marine mollusks from Dominica, B. W. I. The Nautilus. 63: 126-128, pls 9-10
