Vokesimurex woodringi | |
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Shell of Vokesimurex woodringi (museum specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Family: | Muricidae |
Genus: | Vokesimurex |
Species: | V. woodringi
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Binomial name | |
Vokesimurex woodringi (Clench & Pérez Farfante, 1945)
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Vokesimurex woodringi, common name Woodring's murex, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1] The species is named in honor of Wendell P. Woodring.
The size of the shell varies between 30 mm and 70 mm.
This species occurs in the Caribbean Sea. (Panama, Belize, Grenadines).