''Nucella freycinetii'' is a
species of
sea snail
Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the ...
, a marine
gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusk in the
family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
Description
Distribution
This marine species occurs off
Kamchatka.
References
* Valenciennes, A., 1846 Atlas de Zoologie, Mollusques, Paris, Gide et Cie Ed. in : Du Petit Thouars, 1846. Voyage autour du monde sur la frégate la Vénus pendant les années 1836-1839 ; publié par ordre du roi sous les auspices du Ministre de la Marine, p. 24 pls
External links
Deshayes, G. P. (1839). Nouvelles espèces de mollusques, provenant des côtes de la Californie, du Mexique, du Kamtschatka et de la Nouvelle-Zélande. Revue Zoologique par la Société Cuvierienne. (1839) 2 (12): 356-361Pilsbry, H. A. (1907). New and little-known whelks from northern Japan and the Kuril Islands. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 59: 243-246, pls. 19-20.
Muricidae
Gastropods described in 1839
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