| Taxon | Pterynotus tripterus |
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| Authority | (Born, 1778) |
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Pterynotus tripterus, commonly known as the three-winged murex, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]
Description
The shell size varies between 40 mm and 60 mm
Distribution
This species is distributed in the Red Sea and in the western Pacific Ocean.
References
- Vine, P. (1986). Red Sea Invertebrates. Immel Publishing, London. 224 pp
- Merle D., Garrigues B. & Pointier J.-P. (2011) Fossil and Recent Muricidae of the world. Part Muricinae. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 648 pp.
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