Bouchetia hystricina

Bouchetia hystricina is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.^[1]

Bouchetia hystricina
Shell of Bouchetia hystricina (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Muricidae
Subfamily:	Muricinae
Genus:	Bouchetia
Species:	B. hystricina
Binomial name
Bouchetia hystricina (Dall, 1889)
Synonyms[1]
Murex (Phyllonotus) hystricina Dall, 1889 Paziella (Bouchetia) hystricina (Dall, 1889) Paziella hystricina (Dall, 1889) Poirieria (Pazinotus) hystricina (Dall, 1889)

Description

The shell grows to a length of 21 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea and the Lesser Antilles.