''Scabrotrophon chunfui'' 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
Taiwan.
References
* Liu, J.Y.
uiyu(ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
External links
Houart, R.; Lan, T. C. (2001). Description of Scabrotrophon chunfui n. sp. (Gastropoda: Muricidae) from Northeast Taiwan and comments on Nipponotrophon Kuroda & Habe, 1971 and Scabrotrophon McLean, 1996. Novapex. 2 (2): 37-42
Gastropods described in 2001
Scabrotrophon
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