Favartia bojadorensis

Favartia bojadorensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Muricidae
Subfamily:	Muricopsinae
Genus:	Favartia
Subgenus:	Murexiella
Species:	F. bojadorensis
Binomial name
Favartia bojadorensis (Locard, 1897)
Synonyms
Favartia (Murexiella) bojadorensis (Locard, 1897)· accepted, alternate representation Hexaplex bojadorensis (Locard, 1897) Murex asteriae Nicolay, 1972 Murex bojadorensis Locard, 1897 Murexiella asteriae Nicolay, 1972 Murexiella bojadorensis (Locard, 1897)

Favartia bojadorensis, common name the Bojador murex, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.

Description

The shell size varies between 30 mm and 100 mm

Distribution

This species occurs in European waters and in the Atlantic Ocean off the Canary Islands, Ghana and Angola

References

• Gofas, S.; Afonso, J.P.; Brandào, M. (Ed.). (S.a.). Conchas e Moluscos de Angola = Coquillages et Mollusques d'Angola. [Shells and molluscs of Angola]. Universidade Agostinho / Elf Aquitaine Angola: Angola. 140 pp.

External links

• "Murexiella (Murexiella) bojadorensis bojadorensis". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 27 November 2010.
• MNHN, Paris: holotype
• Locard A. (1897–1898). Expéditions scientifiques du Travailleur et du Talisman pendant les années 1880, 1881, 1882 et 1883. Mollusques testacés. Paris, Masson. vol. 1 [1897], p. 1–516 pl. 1-22; vol. 2 [1898], p. 1–515, pl. 1–18