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Phyllonotus pomum (Gmelin, 1791) | |
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Phyllonotus pomum (
Gmelin, 1791)
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Phyllonotus pomum , the apple murex, is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. [1]
The adult shell's dimensions range from 44 mm to 133 mm.
Original description of Lovell Augustus Reeve (published 1843):
The shell is fusiformly oblong, thick, solid, very rough throughout, transversely conspicuously ridged, tuberculated between the varices ; three-varicose, varices tuberculated with a complicated mass of laminae ; fulvous or reddish brown, columella and interior of the aperture ochraceous yellow, columellar lip slightly wrinkled, edge erected, vividly stained, especially at the upper part, with very black brown ; outer lip strongly toothed, ornamented with three black-brown spots ; canal rather short, compressed, recurved." [2]
This species occurs in the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico and the Lesser Antilles; in the Atlantic Ocean between North Carolina and Northern Brazil.