Thais virgata

Thais (Thalessa) virgata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Muricidae
Subfamily:	Rapaninae
Genus:	Thais
Subgenus:	Thalessa
Species:	T. virgata
Binomial name
*Thais (Thalessa) virgata* (Dillwyn, 1817)
Synonyms^[1]
Mancinella hippocastaneum (Linnaeus, 1758) Murex hippocastanum Linnaeus, 1758 Murex plicatus Gmelin, 1791 Murex virgatus Dillwyn, 1817 Purpura distinguenda Dunker, in Dunker & Zelabor, 1866 Purpura hippocastanum Lamarck, 1822 Purpura pseudohippocastanum Dautzenberg, 1929 Thais hippocastanum Thais (Thalessa) aculeata Deshayes, G.P. & H. Milne-Edwards, 1844

Thais (Thalessa) virgata, common name : the aculeate rock shell, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.^[1]

Description

The shell size varies between 25 mm and 60 mm

This species is distributed in the Red Sea, in the Indian Ocean along Madagascar and in the Indo-Pacific.

Dautzenberg, P. (1923). Liste preliminaire des mollusques marins de Madagascar et description de deux especes nouvelles. Journal de Conchyliologie 68: 21-74
Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Mollusques testaces marins de Madagascar. Faune des Colonies Francaises, Tome III
Vine, P. (1986). Red Sea Invertebrates. Immel Publishing, London. 224 pp

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