Babelomurex yumimarumai

Babelomurex yumimarumai is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]

Babelomurex yumimarumai
Shell of Babelomurex yumimarumai Kosuge, 1985, measuring 18.3 mm in length, taken by tangle nets at 80 fathoms off Panglao, Bohol Island, in the Philippines.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:
Muricoidea
Family:
Muricidae
Subfamily:
Coralliophilinae
Genus:
Babelomurex
Species:
B. yumimarumai
Binomial name
Babelomurex yumimarumai
Kosuge, 1985

References
  1. Babelomurex yumimarumai Kosuge, 1985. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 24 April 2010.
  • Kilburn R.N., Marais J.P. & Marais A.P. (2010) Coralliophilinae. pp. 272–292, in: Marais A.P. & Seccombe A.D. (eds), Identification guide to the seashells of South Africa. Volume 1. Groenkloof: Centre for Molluscan Studies. 376 pp.


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