Indothais lacera
Indothais lacera shell
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Muricidae
Genus: Indothais
Species:
I. lacera
Binomial name
Indothais lacera
(Born, 1778)
Synonyms[1]
  • Cymia carinifera (Lamarck, 1822)
  • Mancinella mutabilis Link, 1807
  • Murex lacera Born, 1778
  • Purpura carinata Schubert & Wagner, 1829
  • Purpura carinifera Lamarck, 1822
  • Purpura scalaris Schubert & Wagner, 1829
  • Purpura umbilicata Jenkins, 1864
  • Thais carinifera
  • Thais (Thaisella) lacera (Born, 1778) (alternate representation)
  • Thais lacera (Von Born, 1778)
  • Thais (Thais) mutabilis Link, H.F., 1807
  • Thaisella lacera (Born, 1778)
  • Thaisella mutabilis (Link, 1807)

Indothais lacera is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. [2]

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 30 mm and 57 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off South Africa, in the Red Sea, in the Mediterranean Sea and in the Pacific Ocean off Southeast Asia.

References

  1. Bouchet, P. (2013). Indothais lacera (Born, 1778). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=714477 on 2018-01-11
  2. MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Indothais lacera (Born, 1778). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=714477 on 2022-09-15
  • Vine, P. (1986). Red Sea Invertebrates. Immel Publishing, London. 224 pp
  • Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213
  • Streftaris, N.; Zenetos, A.; Papathanassiou, E. (2005). Globalisation in marine ecosystems: the story of non-indigenous marine species across European seas. Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. Annu. Rev. 43: 419–453
  • Leung KF. & Morton B. (2003). Effects of long-term anthropogenic perturbations on three subtidal epibenthic molluscan communities in Hong Kong. In: Morton B, editor. Proceedings of an International Workshop Reunion Conference, Hong Kong: Perspectives on Marine Environment Change in Hong Kong and Southern China, 1977-2001. Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong. pp 655-717
  • Claremont, M., Vermeij, G. J., Williams, S. T. & Reid, D. G. (2013). Global phylogeny and new classification of the Rapaninae (Gastropoda: Muricidae), dominant molluscan predators on tropical rocky seashores. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 66: 91–102.


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