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Favartia brevicula

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Favartia brevicula
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Muricidae
Genus: Favartia
Species:
F. brevicula
Binomial name
Favartia brevicula
(G. B. Sowerby II, 1834)[1][2]: 63, fig. 37 
Synonyms[1]
  • Favartia (Favartia) brevicula (G. B. Sowerby II, 1834) · unaccepted
  • Favartia robertsoni D'Attilio & B. W. Myers, 1986 · unaccepted (synonym)[3]: 80, figs 9-12, 14–16 
  • Murex breviculus G. B. Sowerby II, 1834 · unaccepted (original combination)


Favartia brevicula shell.

Favartia brevicula is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1] The shell used to belong to the subfamily Muricopsinae,[1][4]: 294, pl. 63 figs 1-13  but now belongs to the subfamily Aspellinae.[1]

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