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Babelomurex cookae

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Babelomurex cookae
Shell of Babelomurex cookae (holotype at the Smithsonian Institution)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Muricidae
Subfamily: Coralliophilinae
Genus: Babelomurex
Species:
B. cookae
Binomial name
Babelomurex cookae
Kosuge, 1988

Babelomurex cookae is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Hawaii.

References

  • Kosuge, S. (1988). Descriptions of two new species of the family Coralliophilidae from Hawaiian Sea (Gastropoda). Bulletin of the Institute of Malacology of Tokyo. 2 (6): 98-100.
  • Severns, M. (2011). Shells of the Hawaiian Islands - The Sea Shells. Conchbooks, Hackenheim. 564 pp.