Favartia levicula

Favartia (Favartia) levicula
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Muricidae
Subfamily:	Muricopsinae
Genus:	Favartia
Subgenus:	Favartia
Species:	F. levicula
Binomial name
	Favartia (Favartia) levicula; (Dall, 1889)
Synonyms
	Murexiella levicula (Dall, 1889); Ocinebra Favartia levicula Dall, 1889;

Favartia (Favartia) levicula is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.^[1]

Description

The shell grows to a length of 18 mm

This species is distributed in the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea and in the Atlantic Ocean from North Carolina to Florida.

Rosenberg, G., F. Moretzsohn, and E. F. García. 2009. Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, pp. 579–699 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas

"Murexiella (Murexiella) levicula". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 26 December 2010.Error: "Q3173193" is not a valid Wikidata entity ID.

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