Timbellus fulgens

Timbellus fulgens
Shell of Timbellus fulgens (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Muricidae
Genus:	Timbellus
Species:	T. fulgens
Binomial name
Timbellus fulgens (Houart, 1988)
Synonyms
Pterynotus fulgens Houart, 1988 (basionym)

Timbellus fulgens is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.

Distribution

This species is distributed in the Indian Ocean along South Africa and in the Pacific Ocean along New Caledonia.

References

• Houart, R. (1988). Description of seven new species of Muricidae (Neagastropoda) from the south-western Pacific Ocean. Venus. 47(3): 185-196.
• Merle D., Garrigues B. & Pointier J.-P. (2011) Fossil and Recent Muricidae of the world. Part Muricinae. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 648 pp. page(s): 133

External links

• "Pterynotus (Pterynotus) fulgens". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 11 April 2011.

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