Homalocantha oxyacantha

Homalocantha oxyacantha is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]

Homalocantha oxyacantha
Shell of Homalocantha oxyacantha (Broderip, 1833), measuring 49.4 mm in length, with operculum collected alive on beach at low tide at Fort Kobbe, in Panama.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:
Muricoidea
Family:
Muricidae
Subfamily:
Muricinae
Genus:
Homalocantha
Species:
H. oxyacantha
Binomial name
Homalocantha oxyacantha
(Broderip, 1833)
Synonyms[1]

Murex oxyacantha Broderip, 1833
Murex stearnsii Dall, 1918

References
  1. Homalocantha oxyacantha (Broderip, 1833). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 24 April 2010.


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