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Drupella
Sign in to saveDrupella is most commonly a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderNeogastropoda
- FamilyMuricidae
Habitatmarine
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 553
- With media
- 10
- Family
- Muricidae
- Collections
- RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, USNM, UCMP, CAS, UF, BPBM
- Recorded in
- Seychelles, Comoros, Japan, South Africa, French Polynesia, United States, Fiji, Saudi Arabia
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Ergalataxinae
- Image
- Drupella cornus 001.jpg
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- Drupella
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Encyclopedic overview
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Drupella is most commonly a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
This genus was placed in the family Muricidae by Drivas & Jay, 1988 and by Richmond, 1997.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Drupella” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.