Timbellus leucas | |
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Shell of Timbellus leucas (oaralectotype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Family: | Muricidae |
Genus: | Timbellus |
Species: | T. leucas
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Binomial name | |
Timbellus leucas (
Locard, 1897)
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Synonyms [1] | |
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Timbellus leucas is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. [1]
The size of an adult shell varies between 25 mm and 47 mm.
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This species is found in European waters (along Madeira) and in the Atlantic Ocean along Southern Morocco and Senegal