Babelomurex benoiti

Babelomurex benoiti is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.^[1][3]

Babelomurex benoiti
Shell of Babelomurex benoiti (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Muricidae
Genus:	Babelomurex
Species:	B. benoiti
Binomial name
Babelomurex benoiti (Tiberi, 1855)
Synonyms[1][2]
Latiaxis amaliae (Kobelt, 1907) Latiaxis benoiti (Tiberi, 1855) Murex benoiti Tiberi, 1855 Pseudomurex amaliae Kobelt, 1907

Description

Its shell is white-yellowish with many small ridges. The shell is normally 20mm – 45mm in length, the mean being around 38mm.^[3][4]

Distribution

The species occurs in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, off the coasts of Sardinia, Greece and Turkey.^[1][2][3]