Vokesimurex sallasi

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

Vokesimurex sallasi
Shell of Vokesimurex sallasi (holotype at the Smithsonian Institution)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Muricidae
Subfamily:	Muricinae
Genus:	Vokesimurex
Species:	V. sallasi
Binomial name
Vokesimurex sallasi (Rehder & Abbott, 1951)
Synonyms[1]
Haustellum bellegladeensis (E. H. Vokes, 1963) Murex anniae bellegladeensis Vokes, 1963 (original combination) † Murex bellegladeensis E. H. Vokes, 1963 Murex bellegladensis [sic] (misspelling) Murex sallasi Rehder & Abbott, 1951 Murex (Murex) recurvirostris sallasi Rehder & Abbott, 1951 Vokesimurex anniae bellegladeensis (Vokes, 1963) Vokesimurex morrisoni Petuch & Sargent, 2011

Description

The length of the shell varies between 38.7 mm and 58 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Gulf of Mexico and in the South China Sea.