''Cytharomorula lefevreiana'' is a

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, a marine

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mollusk Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is e ...

in the

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Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.

Description

Distribution

THis species occurs in the Indian Ocean off

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and

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References

* Houart R. (2013) Revised classification of a group of small species of Cytharomorula Kuroda, 1953 (Muricidae: Ergalataxinae) from the Indo-West Pacific. Novapex 14(2): 25-34 * Houart R., Zuccon D. & Puillandre D. , 2019. Description of new genera and new species of Ergalataxinae (Gastropoda: Muricidae). Novapex 20(HS 12): 1-5

External links

Tapparone Canefri C. (1881). Glanures dans la faune malacologique de l'Ile Maurice. Catalogue de la famille des Muricidés. 100 pp., 2 pls.
Gastropods described in 1880 Cytharomorula {{Ergalataxinae-stub