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A new Coralliophilid-like Muricid (Gastropoda, Muricldae) from the Coral Sea Author & date of last revision: admin on 20 November 2011
(1994)
AbstractXastilia kosugei n.gen., n.sp. is described from depths of 250—300 m. on Capel Bank, a guyot in the Coral Sea, SW Pacific. The shell resembles those of the Coralliophilidae, but its radula is characteristic of the muricid subfamily Muricopsinae. Keywords
Muricidae, Coralliophilidae, convergence, endemism, Coral Sea.
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