Skip to content
Naquetia

Specimen image via iDigBio · BY-NC

EntityQ6965199· pop 8· linked from 8 articles

Naquetia is a genus of medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the rock snails or murex snails.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumMollusca
  3. ClassGastropoda
  4. OrderNeogastropoda
  5. FamilyMuricidae
Habitatmarine

via GBIF

Museum specimens

Specimen records
35
With media
3
Family
Muricidae
Collections
RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, UCMP, UWBM, AUM, UF, USNM
Recorded in
India, Comoros, Papua New Guinea, Israel, Mauritius, Egypt, Philippines, Fiji

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Muricidae
Image
WLA hmns Naquetia annandalei 2.jpg
Show 3 more facts
taxon name
Naquetia
taxon rank
genus
Commons category
Naquetia
Sources (1)

via Wikidata · CC0

~1 min read

Encyclopedic overview

3 sections
Contents
  • Species
  • References
  • External links

Naquetia is a genus of medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the rock snails or murex snails.

==Species== Species within the genus Naquetia include: Naquetia annandalei (Preston, 1910) Naquetia barclayi (Reeve, 1858) Naquetia cumingii (A. Adams, 1853) Naquetia fosteri D'Attilio & Hertz, 1987 Naquetia jickelii (Tapparone Canefri, 1875) Naquetia manwaii Houart & Héros, 2013 Naquetia rhondae Houart & Lorenz, 2015 Naquetia triqueter (Born, 1778) Naquetia vokesae Houart, 1986 Species brought into synonymy : Naquetia capucina (Lamarck, 1822): synonym of Chicoreus capucinus (Lamarck, 1822) Naquetia superbus (G. B. Sowerby III, 1889): synonym of Chicomurex superbus (G. B. Sowerby III, 1889)

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Naquetia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

Available in 6 languages

via Wikidata sitelinks · CC0