Vokesimurex hirasei

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

Vokesimurex hirasei
Shell of Vokesimurex hirasei (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Muricidae
Genus:	Vokesimurex
Species:	V. hirasei
Binomial name
Vokesimurex hirasei (Dautzenberg, 1915)
Synonyms[1]
Haustellum hirasei (Dautzenberg, 1915) Murex hirasei Dautzenberg (ms) in Hirase, 1915

Description

The length of the shell varies between 50 mm and 126 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Philippines, in the East China Sea, off Taiwan and off Japan; also off Fiji, the Tonga Islands and New Caledonia.