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Muricopsis nicocheana

Muricopsis nicocheana

Classification

Family
Muricidae

Muricopsis necocheana is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. This species was described by the American biologist Henry Augustus Pilsbry, with the name Sistrum nicocheanum in a scientific article included in the number 1 of volume XIV of the journal The Nautilus, published in May 1900. Description The shell of this species was originally described as follows: shell imperforate or rimate, fusiform, thick and strong, brownish-orange color, the whorl is brownish-brown.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Argentina · 8