Murex brevispina

Murex brevispina, also known as the Short-spined murex, is a species of large predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the rock snails or murex snails.^[1]

Subspecies

• Murex brevispina brevispina Lamarck, 1822
• Murex brevispina macgillivrayi Dohrn, 1862
• Murex brevispina ornamentalis Ponder & E. H. Vokes, 1988
• Murex brevispina senilis Jousseaume, 1874
• Murex brevispina toliaraensis Bozzetti, 2020
• Murex brevispina albus Bozzetti, 2020: synonym of Murex brevispina toliaraensis Bozzetti, 2020 (invalid: junior homonym of Murex craticulatus var. albus Scacchi, 1836; M. brevispina toliaraensis is a replacement name)

Murex brevispina
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Muricidae
Genus:	Murex
Species:	M. brevispina
Binomial name
Murex brevispina Lamarck, 1822
Synonyms
Murex (Murex) brevispina Lamarck, 1822· accepted, alternate representation Tubicauda brevispina Jousseaume, 1880