Naquetia triqueter, common name : the three-angled murex, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Family: | Muricidae |
Genus: | Naquetia |
Species: | N. triqueter
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Binomial name | |
Naquetia triqueter (Born, 1778)
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The shell size varies between 50 mm and 75 mm
This species is distributed in the Indian Ocean along Madagascar, Tanzania, Chagos and the Mascarene Basin; and in the Western Pacific Ocean.