| Babelomurex armatus | |
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| A shell of Babelomurex armatus Sowerby III, 1912, 30.6 mm in length, trawled at 180 to 300 m, in the South China Sea. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Genus: | Babelomurex |
| Species: | B. armatus |
| Binomial name | |
| Babelomurex armatus Sowerby III, 1912 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Latiaxis armatus G. B. Sowerby III, 1912 (original combination) | |
Babelomurex armatus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]
Description
The length of the shell attains 28 mm, its diameter 16 mm.
(Original description in Latin) The shell is shortly fusiform and white in color, featuring an sharply pyramidal spire. It consists of eight whorls that are distinctly angulated, densely covered with spiral ridges, and finely squamose (scaly). At their angle, the whorls are muricate (prickly or spinous).
The body whorl slopes down in a somewhat flattened manner above the angle, where it is armed with elongated, narrow scales that rise obliquely. Below this angle, the whorl becomes convex, and it contracts a little below its middle. The umbilicus is narrow and is bordered by a scaly, oblique left ridge. The aperture is oval in shape, the columella is tortuous, and the siphonal canal is moderately produced and slightly arched.[2]
Distribution
This marine species occurs off Japan, Taiwan and the Philippines.
References
- Babelomurex armatus Sowerby III, 1912. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 24 April 2010.
- Sowerby, G.B. III (1912). "Descriptions of new species of Voluta, Latiaxis, and Calliostoma from Japan". The Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 8, 9 (52): 472–473. Retrieved 24 May 2026.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- Oliverio, M. (2008). Coralliophilinae (Neogastropoda: Muricidae) from the southwest Pacific. in: Héros, V. et al. (Ed.) Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos 25. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (1993). 196: 481-585.
- Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). [Checklist of marine biota of China seas]. China Science Press. 1267 pp.