Latiaxis mawae

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

Latiaxis mawae
Shell of Latiaxis mawae (Gray in Griffith & Pidgeon, 1834), measuring 25.4 mm in length, taken at 80 fathoms in tangle nets off Balicasag Island in the Philippines.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Muricidae
Genus:	Latiaxis
Species:	L. mawae
Binomial name
Latiaxis mawae (Gray, 1833)
Synonyms
Latiaxis kylix Barnard, 1959 Latiaxis mawae kylix Barnard, 1959 Pyrula mawae Gray [in Griffith & Pidgeon], 1834