Vokesimurex malabaricus explained

Vokesimurex malabaricus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.

Description

The shell of an adult specimen grows to a length of 106.1 mm.

(Original description) This handsome species is well characterized by its form, the style of coloration, and sculpture. The recurved hollow spine upon the varices about the middle of the upper whorls is a prominent feature in the ornamentation.

The ventricose, fusiform shell contains 9-10 slightly convex whorls. The longitudinal slender ribs, which are nodulous where certain of the transverse lirae cross them, increase in number with the growth of the shell. In the body whorl there are about six in the space between any two varices, five to four on the penultimate, four to three on the preceding volution, two and then only one upon the uppermost whorls.

The transverse colour-bands, when examined closely, are found to consist of groups of coloured lirae.[1]

Distribution

This marine species can be found in the Persian Gulf and in the Pacific Ocean along Indonesia.

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Notes and References

  1. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15625978 Smith, E. A. (1894). Natural history notes from H.M. Indian Marine Survey Steamer ´Investigator´, Commander C.F. Oldham, R.N.-Series II, No. 10. Report upon some Mollusca dredged in the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. ser. 6, 14: 157-174, pls 3-5