Leptotrophon spinacutus
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| Leptotrophon spinacutus | |
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| Shell of Leptotrophon spinacutus (specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Genus: | Leptotrophon |
| Species: | L. spinacutus |
| Binomial name | |
| Leptotrophon spinacutus (Houart, 1986) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Poirieria (Paziella) spinacutus Houart, 1986 | |
Leptotrophon spinacutus, also known as Poirieria spinacatus, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]
The length of the shell attains 9.5 mm.
Leptotrophon spinacutus was first described as such in a journal of the French National Museum of Natural History (1986) along with six other new species of Muricidae, by the Belgian malacologist Roland Houart.
