Tylothais aculeata

Tylothais aculeata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.^[1][2]

Tylothais aculeata
Shell of Tylothais aculeata (specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Muricidae
Subfamily:	Rapaninae
Genus:	Tylothais
Species:	T. aculeata
Binomial name
Tylothais aculeata (Deshayes, 1844)
Synonyms[1]
Purpura aculeata Deshayes, 1844 Thais (Thalessa) aculeata (Deshayes, 1844) Thais aculeata (Deshayes, 1844) Thalessa aculeata (Deshayes, 1844)

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Papua New Guinea.