Hexaplex megacerus

Hexaplex megacerus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Muricidae
Subfamily: Muricinae
Genus: Hexaplex
Species: H. megacerus
Binomial name
Hexaplex megacerus
(G.B. Sowerby II, 1834)
Synonyms[1]

Murex megacerus Sowerby, 1834
Murex moquinianus Duval, 1853

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

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