Vokesimurex messorius

Vokesimurex messorius
shell of Vokesimurex messorius (museum specimens at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Muricidae
Genus: Vokesimurex
Species:
V. messorius
Binomial name
Vokesimurex messorius
(G.B. Sowerby II, 1841)
Synonyms[1]
  • Murex funiculatus Reeve, 1845
  • Murex messorius Sowerby II, 1841
  • Murex samui Sunderland, 2003
  • Murex sutilis C. A. White, 1887

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.[1]

Subspecies
  • Murex messorius gustaviensis Nowell-Usticke, G.W., 1969: synonym of Vokesimurex woodringi (Clench & Pérez Farfante, 1945)
  1. ^ a b Vokesimurex messorius (Sowerby II, 1841). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.