Vokesimurex kiiensis

Vokesimurex kiiensis, common name Kii murex, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.^[2]

Vokesimurex kiiensis
A shell of Vokesimurex kiiensis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Muricidae
Subfamily:	Muricinae
Genus:	Vokesimurex
Species:	V. kiiensis
Binomial name
Vokesimurex kiiensis (Kira, 1959)[1]
Synonyms[2]
Haustellum kiiensis (Kira, 1959) Murex kiiensis Kira, 1959 Murex kiiensis f. nagaidesu Shikama, 1970

Description

Shell of Vokesimurex kiiensis can reach a length of 50–100 millimetres (2.0–3.9 in).^[3][4] This species has a conical, multispiral protoconch, short shoulder spines and short, crowded, blunt spines at the base of the siphonal canal.^[5]

Distribution

This marine species is present from the Philippines, Indonesia and the East China Sea; from Southern Japan, the Fiji Islands, Papua New Guinea to Queensland, Australia, at depth of about 100 m.;^[4][6] also off Madagascar.