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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
MURICIDAE: CORALLIOPHILINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Muricoidea (Superfamily)
> Muricidae (Family)
> Coralliophilinae (Subfamily)
> Hirtomurex (Genus)
> nakamurai (Species)
Images: Hirtomurex nakamurai Kosuge, 1985
Collected in 430-455 metres, 15 miles E of Seal Rock, NSW, Australia (C.150063). Australian Museum, Sydney
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
MURICIDAE: CORALLIOPHILINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Muricoidea (Superfamily)
> Muricidae (Family)
> Coralliophilinae (Subfamily)
> Hirtomurex (Genus)
> nakamurai (Species)
Details: Hirtomurex nakamurai Kosuge, 1985
Size/Grows to:
Height 38mm, Width 23mm
Distribution:
Japan and Australia. Southern Norfolk Ridge, NW of Cape Reinga, Far North, 514-540 metres
Notes:
Marine
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Marshall, B.A., Oliverio, M. 2009 The Recent Coralliophilinae of the New Zealand region, with descriptions of two new species (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda: Muricidae), Molluscan Research, 29(3) (p.164)
  • Kosuge, S. 1985 Descriptions of four new species of the family Coralliophilidae of the Teramachi collection deposited in Toba Aquarium, Japan (Gastropoda Muricacea), Bulletin of the Institute of Malacology, Tokyo, 2 (p.45) Original Description

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