Thaisella coronata

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

Thaisella coronata
Shell of Thaisella coronata (specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Muricidae
Subfamily:	Rapaninae
Genus:	Thaisella
Species:	T. coronata
Binomial name
Thaisella coronata (Lamarck, 1816)
Synonyms[1]
Purpura coronata Lamarck, 1816 Purpura guineensis Schubert & Wagner, 1829 Thais (Thaisella) coronata (Lamarck, 1816) Thais brujensis M. Smith, 1946 Thais coronata (Lamarck, 1816) Thais coronata trinitatensis (Guppy, 1869)

Description

The length of the shell attains 45 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off Brazil.