Murex carbonnieri

Murex carbonnieri, also known as Carbonnier's murex, is a species of large predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Muricidae, the rock snails or murex snails.^[1]

Murex carbonnieri
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Muricidae
Subfamily:	Muricinae
Genus:	Murex
Species:	M. carbonnieri
Binomial name
Murex carbonnieri (Jousseaume, 1881)
Synonyms
Acupurpura carbonnieri Jousseaume, 1881 (original combination) Murex (Murex) carbonnieri (Jousseaume, 1881)· accepted, alternate representation Murex maculatus A. H. Verrill, 1950 (invalid: junior homonym of Murex maculatus Reeve, 1845)

Description

The length of the shell varies between 60 mm and 125 mm.

Distribution

This species origin is in the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden and the United Arab Emirates; also off Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and the Philippines and Thailand; off Ethiopia and Eritrea.