Coralliophila violacea

Coralliophila violacea
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Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Muricidae
Subfamily:	Coralliophilinae
Genus:	Coralliophila
Species:	C. violacea
Binomial name
	Coralliophila violacea; Kiener, 1836
Synonyms
	Coralliophila neritoidea (Gmelin, 1791); Fusus neritoideus (Name generally attributed to Lamarck, 1816, but in fact a new combination of Murex neritoideus of Gmelin); Murex neritoideus Chemnitz, 1788 (Unavailable name: published in non-binomial work); Murex neritoideus Gmelin, 1791 (Invalid: junior homonym of Murex neritoideus Linnaeus, 1767); Purpura violacea Kiener, 1836 (basionym);

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Coralliophila violacea, common name : the violet coral shell, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.^[1]

Description

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This species is distributed in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean along Aldabra, Chagos, Kenya, Madagascar and Tanzania, in the Indo-Pacific and along the Galapagos Islands

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Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Mollusques testacés marins de Madagascar. Faune des Colonies Francaises, Tome III
Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice
Oliverio M. (2008) Coralliophilinae (Neogastropoda: Muricidae) from the southwest Pacific. In: V. Héros, R.H. Cowie & P. Bouchet (eds), Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos 25. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 196: 481-585. page(s): 486

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