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Three new coralliophiline species from south west Pacific (Neogastropoda: Muricidae: Coralliophilinae)

Author & date of last revision: admin on 20 November 2011
SADAO KOSUGE and MARCO OLIVERIO,
(2004)

Abstract

Three new coralliophiline species are described from stations sampled in deep waters of New Caledonia, and Fiji in the South West Pacific: Coralliophila rhomboidea, Babelomurex virginiae and Mipus coriolisi. All species are compared with the morphologically closest species of Coralliophila, Babelomurex and Mipus.

Keywords

Coralliophila, Babelomurex, Mipus, New Caledonia, south-west Pacific
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