Muricopsis rutila

Muricopsis rutila
	Shell of Muricopsis rutila mariangelae (paratype in the MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Muricidae
Genus:	Muricopsis
Species:	M. rutila
Binomial name
	Muricopsis rutila; (Reeve, 1846)
Synonyms
	Muricopsis (Muricopsis) rutila (Reeve, 1846)· accepted, alternate representation; Muricopsis (Muricopsis) rutila rutila (Reeve, 1846)· accepted, alternate representation; Muricopsis (Risomurex) rutila (Reeve, 1846); Muricopsis rutila rutila (Reeve, 1846)·Small text accepted, alternate representation; Ricinula rutila (Reeve, 1846);

Muricopsis rutila, common name : the beaded drupe, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.^[1]

Subspecies

There are two subspecies:

Muricopsis rutila mariangelae Rolan & Fernandes, 1991 : this subspecies is endemic to São Tomé and Príncipe^[2]
Muricopsis rutila rutila (Reeve, 1846): this species is found in the Atlantic Ocean off Ghana: represented as Muricopsis rutila (Reeve, 1846)

The size of an adult shell varies between 10 mm and 20 mm.

Rolàn, E. & Fernandes, F., 1991. Muricopsis (Risomurex) (Gastropoda, Muricidae) de les islas de Sao Tomé y Principe (Golfo de Guinea, Africa occidental). Apex 6(1): 11-20

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