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Favartia bojadorensis

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Favartia bojadorensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Muricidae
Genus: Favartia
Species:
F. bojadorensis
Binomial name
Favartia bojadorensis
(Locard, 1897)
Synonyms[1]
  • Favartia (Murexiella) bojadorensis (Locard, 1897)· accepted, alternate representation
  • Hexaplex bojadorensis (Locard, 1897)
  • Murex asteriae Nicolay, 1972
  • Murex bojadorensis Locard, 1897
  • Murexiella asteriae Nicolay, 1972
  • Murexiella bojadorensis (Locard, 1897)

Favartia bojadorensis, common name the Bojador murex, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]

Description

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The shell size varies between 30 mm and 100 mm

Distribution

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This species occurs in European waters and in the Atlantic Ocean off the Canary Islands, Ghana and Angola

References

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  • Gofas, S.; Afonso, J.P.; Brandào, M. (Ed.). (S.a.). Conchas e Moluscos de Angola = Coquillages et Mollusques d'Angola. [Shells and molluscs of Angola]. Universidade Agostinho / Elf Aquitaine Angola: Angola. 140 pp.
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  • "Murexiella (Murexiella) bojadorensis bojadorensis". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 27 November 2010.
  • MNHN, Paris: holotype
  • Locard A. (1897–1898). Expéditions scientifiques du Travailleur et du Talisman pendant les années 1880, 1881, 1882 et 1883. Mollusques testacés. Paris, Masson. vol. 1 [1897], p. 1–516 pl. 1-22; vol. 2 [1898], p. 1–515, pl. 1–18