Lenitrophon
Appearance
(Redirected from Xymene convexus)
Lenitrophon | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Family: | Muricidae |
Genus: | Lenitrophon |
Species: | L. convexus
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Binomial name | |
Lenitrophon convexus (Suter, 1909)
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Lenitrophon is a monotypic genus of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Muricidae, the rock snails or murex snails. Its sole species is Lenitrophon convexus.[1] This marine species is endemic to New Zealand.
References
[edit]- ^ "Lenitrophon convexus". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 8 March 2025.
- Powell A W B, New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1