Vokesimurex kiiensis, common name Kii murex, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[2]
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| A shell of Vokesimurex kiiensis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Subfamily: | Muricinae |
| Genus: | Vokesimurex |
| Species: | V. kiiensis
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| Vokesimurex kiiensis (Kira, 1959)[1]
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Description edit
Shell of Vokesimurex kiiensis can reach a length of 50–100 millimetres (2.0–3.9 in).[3][4] This species has a conical, multispiral protoconch, short shoulder spines and short, crowded, blunt spines at the base of the siphonal canal.[5]
Distribution edit
This marine species is present from the Philippines, Indonesia and the East China Sea; from Southern Japan, the Fiji Islands, Papua New Guinea to Queensland, Australia, at depth of about 100 m.[4][6]; also off Madagascar.
References edit
- ^ Kira, T. (1955) Coloured Illustrations of the Shells of Japan. Hoikusha, Osaka, Japan, 204 pp.
- ^ a b Vokesimurex kiiensis (Kira, 1959). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
- ^ Encyclopedia of life
- ^ a b "Vokesimurex kiiensis". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 12 January 2019.
- ^ R. Houart, V. Heros Muricidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from Fiji and Tonga pp. 1–44
- ^ WMSDB – Worldwide Mollusc Species Data Base
- Shikama, T. 1970a. On some noteworthy marine gastropoda from southwestern Japan (II). Science Reports of the Yokohama National University, section 2 (Geol.), 16:19-27, 1 pl.
- Ponder, W.F. & Vokes, E.H. 1988. A revision of the Indo-West Pacific fossil and recent species of Murex s.s. and Haustellum (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Muricidae). Records of the Australian Museum 8: 1-160
- Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp.
- Merle D., Garrigues B. & Pointier J.-P. (2011) Fossil and Recent Muricidae of the world. Part Muricinae. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 648 pp
- Houart R. (2014). Living Muricidae of the world. Muricinae. Murex, Promurex, Haustellum, Bolinus, Vokesimurex and Siratus. Harxheim: ConchBooks. 197 pp
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