Menathais tuberosa

Menathais tuberosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Muricidae
Subfamily:	Rapaninae
Genus:	Menathais
Species:	M. tuberosa
Binomial name
	Menathais tuberosa; (Röding, 1798)
Synonyms
	Drupa trapa Röding, 1798; Galeodes tuberosa Röding, 1798; Mancinella tuberosa (Röding, 1798); Purpura pica Blainville, 1832; Purpura pica var. major Couturier, 1907; Thais (Thalessa) tuberosa (Röding, 1798); Thais pica Blainville; Vasum castaneum Röding, 1798;

Menathais tuberosa, common names humped rock shell, humped rocksnail, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, of the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.^[1]

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 17 mm and 50 mm.

This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Madagascar and Tanzania; also in the southwestern and central Pacific Ocean off Tonga

^ ^a ^b MolluscaBase (2018). Menathais tuberosa (Röding, 1798). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=714205 on 2019-01-06

Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Mollusques testacés marins de Madagascar. Faune des Colonies Francaises, Tome III
Spry, J.F. (1961). The sea shells of Dar es Salaam: Gastropods. Tanganyika Notes and Records 56
Lamy, Ed., 1918. Notes sur quelques espèces de Purpura déterminées par Blainville dans la collection du Muséum de Paris. Bulletin du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 24: 352-357
Claremont M., Vermeij G.J., Williams S.T. & Reid D.G. (2013) Global phylogeny and new classification of the Rapaninae (Gastropoda: Muricidae), dominant molluscan predators on tropical rocky seashores. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 66: 91–102

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