| Vokesimurex anniae | |
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| Shell of Vokesimurex anniae (specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Subfamily: | Muricinae |
| Genus: | Vokesimurex |
| Species: | V. anniae |
| Binomial name | |
| Vokesimurex anniae (M. Smith, 1940) | |
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Vokesimurex anniae is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]
Description
A fossil species from the Calabrian Pleistocene Bermont Formation of southern Florida.
The length of the shell varies between 27.6 mm and 97 mm.
Distribution
This marine species occurs in the Caribbean Sea and in the East China Sea.
References
- ↑ Vokesimurex anniae (M. Smith, 1940). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
- Petuch E.J. (1987). New Caribbean molluscan faunas. Charlottesville, Virginia: The Coastal Education and Research Foundation. 154 pp., 29 pls; addendum 2 pp., 1 pl
- Rosenberg, G.; Moretzsohn, F.; García, E. F. (2009). Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.
- Merle D., Garrigues B. & Pointier J.-P. (2011) Fossil and Recent Muricidae of the world. Part Muricinae. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 648 pp
- Houart, R. (2014). Living Muricidae of the world. Muricinae. Murex, Promurex, Haustellum, Bolinus, Vokesimurex and Siratus. Harxheim: ConchBooks. 197 pp.
- Garrigues B. & Lamy D. (2017). Muricidae récoltés en Guyane au cours de l'expédition La Planète Revisitée. Xenophora Taxonomy. 15: 29-38
- García, E. F. (2023). Species of Muricidae (Gastropoda: Muricoidea) dredged in the Gulf of Mexico by the R/V Pelican, and the synonymy of two well-known names. Novapex. 24(1): 21–32.
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