Murex ternispina

Murex ternispina (formerly known as Murex nigrispinosus) is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.^[1]

Murex ternispina
Murex ternispina shell
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Muricidae
Genus:	Murex
Species:	M. ternispina
Binomial name
Murex ternispina Lamarck, 1822
Synonyms[1]
Murex nigrispinosus Reeve, 1845

Distribution

It mainly occurs in the Western Pacific Ocean.

Murex ternispina on a 1969 Indonesia postage stamp.