Vokesimurex woodringi

Vokesimurex woodringi, common name Woodring's murex, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.^[1] The species is named in honor of Wendell P. Woodring.

Vokesimurex woodringi
Shell of Vokesimurex woodringi (museum specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Muricidae
Genus:	Vokesimurex
Species:	V. woodringi
Binomial name
Vokesimurex woodringi (Clench & Pérez Farfante, 1945)
Synonyms[1]
Murex woodringi Clench & Pérez Farfante, 1945 Murex woodringi var. gustaviensis Nowell-Usticke, 1969

Description

The size of the shell varies between 30 mm and 70 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Caribbean Sea. (Panama, Belize, Grenadines).