Zeatrophon ambiguus

Zeatrophon ambiguus
A shell of Zeatrophon ambiguus (female)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Muricidae
Subfamily:	Pagodulinae
Genus:	Zeatrophon
Species:	Z. ambiguus
Binomial name
Zeatrophon ambiguus (Philippi, 1844)
Synonyms[1]
Fusus ambiguus Philippi, 1844 (original combination) Fusus cretaceus Reeve, 1847 Trophon spiratus H. Adams & A. Adams, 1863 Xymene ambiguus (Philippi, 1844) Zeatrophon elegans Fleming, 1943 Zeatrophon mutabilis Marwick, 1928

Zeatrophon ambiguus common name the large trophon, is a species of large predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Muricidae, the rock snails or murex snails. ^[1]

Apertural view of the shell of Zeatrophon ambiguus (female)

References

1. Marshall, B.; Rosenberg, G. (2014). Zeatrophon ambiguus (Philippi, 1844). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=598755 on 2015-01-08

• Powell A W B, New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1

External links

• Spencer H.G., Willan R.C., Marshall B.A. & Murray T.J. (2011). Checklist of the Recent Mollusca Recorded from the New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone.