Vokesimurex messorius
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| Two views of a shell of Vokesimurex messorius (museum specimens at Naturalis Biodiversity Center) | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Subfamily: | Muricinae |
| Genus: | Vokesimurex |
| Species: | V. messorius |
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Vokesimurex messorius (Sowerby II, 1841) |
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Vokesimurex messorius, common name the Mesorius murex, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
The size of the shell varies between 48 mm and 90 mm.
This species occurs in the Caribbean Sea off Honduras to Suriname and St Lucia.
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