Scabrotrophon fabricii

Scabrotrophon fabricii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Muricidae
Subfamily:	Trophoninae
Genus:	Scabrotrophon
Species:	S. fabricii
Binomial name
	Scabrotrophon fabricii; (Møller, 1842)
Synonyms[1]
	Boreotrophon craticulatus (O. Fabricus, 1780); Murex borealis Reeve, 1845; Tritonium craticulatum Fabricius, 1780; Trophon craticulatum Fabricius, 1780; Trophon fabricii Beck in Møller, 1842; Trophon heuglini Mörch, 1876; Trophon interstriatus Sowerby, 1880; Trophonopsis fabricii Beck in Møller, 1842;

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

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 22 mm and 61 mm.

This species is distributed in European waters, the Northwest Atlantic Ocean and in the Gulf of St. Lawrence (Canada)

Brunel, P., L. Bosse, and G. Lamarche. 1998. Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 p
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
Trott, T.J. 2004. Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist (Special Issue 2): 261–324.

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