Vitularia
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| Vitularia | |
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| Vitularia salebrosa | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Subfamily: | Muricopsinae |
| Genus: | Vitularia Swainson, 1840 |
| Type species | |
| Murex miliaris Gmelin, 1791 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Vitularia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]
These marine species occur in the Indo-west Pacific and eastern Pacific; also off Australia (Queensland, Western Australia)
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