Dermomurex glicksteini

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

Dermomurex glicksteini
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Muricidae
Genus:	Dermomurex
Species:	D. glicksteini
Binomial name
Dermomurex glicksteini Petuch, 1987
Synonyms[1]
Dermomurex (Dermomurex) glicksteini Petuch, 1987 Dermomurex (Trialatella) glicksteini Petuch, 1987

Description

Original description: "Shell elongated, fusiform, with elevated spire and well developed siphonal canal; whorls with 3 large blade like varices; intervarical areas with 1 large, keeled axial nob, whorls ornamented with numerous raised spiral threads; aperture large, oval in shape; inner edge of lip with 6 large red denticles; shell color mottled khaki-green and tan, overlaid with darker tannish brown banding along the suture and on siphonal canal; intritacalx thick, chalky, light tan in color; interior of aperture light tan."^[2]

The shell grows to a length of 16 mm.

Distribution

Locus typicus: "(Trawled from) 150 metres depth, off Palm Beach Island, Palm Beach County, Florida, USA."^[3]

This marine species occurs off Eastern Florida, USA and the Bermudas.