Dermomurex kaicherae | |
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Shell of Dermomurex kaicherae (specimen at the Smithsonian Institution) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Family: | Muricidae |
Genus: | Dermomurex |
Species: | D. kaicherae
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Binomial name | |
Dermomurex kaicherae (Petuch, 1987) [1]
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Synonyms[2] | |
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Dermomurex kaicherae is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[2]
Original description: "Shell elongated, fusiform, thin and fragile; 3 thin, winglike varices per whorl; body whorl and spire whorls ornamented with 3 large, evenly-spaced spiral cords; intervarical regions with an axial rib composed of 3 large knobs; 3 large cords extend onto backs of winglike varices; entire shell covered with numerous fine spiral threads, giving shell a rough appearance; aperture large, oval, with 6 tiny red denticles along inner edge of lip; entire shell uniform chocolate-brown; interior of aperture brown; columella tan; intritacalx (eroded off much of holotype) tan."[3]
The length of the shell varies between 13 mm and 23 mm.
Locus typicus: "Off Cabo La Vela, Goajira Peninsula, Colombia."[4]
This species occurs in the Caribbean Sea (off Colombia)
and the Lesser Antilles (off the Virgin Islands, St. Croix and Tortola)