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Taxon profile

genus

Apixystus Iredale, 1929

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Gastropoda - gastropods »  order Neogastropoda »  family Muricidae - Muricids

Description

Shell small, to approximately 10 mm length. Protoconch smooth, sometimes keeled. Spire high and acute. Teleoconch whorls spinose. Axial ribs laminate, bearing short, open spinelets where they cross the rounded spiral cords. Aperture rounded and broad. Siphonal canal short to moderate in length. Color usually whitish.
Houart, R. (1987) Revision of the subfamily Trophoninae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Muricidae) in Southern Africa, with description of four new species
Author: Jan Delsing

Included taxa

Number of records: 2

species Apixystus plicilaminatus Verco, 1909
species Apixystus transkeiensis R. Houart, 1987

Apixystus transkeiensis


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