Lamellitrophon traversi

Lamellitrophon traversi is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Muricidae, the rock snails or murex snails.^[1]

Lamellitrophon traversi
Shell of Lamellitrophon traversi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Muricidae
Genus:	Lamellitrophon
Species:	L. traversi
Binomial name
Lamellitrophon traversi (Hutton, 1873)
Synonyms
Axymene traversi (F. W. Hutton, 1873) superseded combination Euthria linea traversi Suter, 1913 Fusus corticatus Hutton, 1873 Fusus traversi Hutton, 1873 (original combination) Trophon waipipicola Webster, 1906 Xymene quirindus Iredale, 1915 Xymene traversi (Hutton, 1873)

Description

(Original description) The shell is ovate-fusiform. The spire whorls and the posterior portion of the body whorl are longitudinally ribbed, with ten ribs per whorl. The aperture is oval. The siphonal canal is short and slightly recurved to the left. Both lips are smooth. The shell is white, adorned with thin brown spiral stripes, of which ten to twelve are present on the body whorl. The interior is white, featuring two interrupted brown bands on the outer lip. ^[2]

Distribution

This marine species is endemic to New Zealand.