Indothais lacera

Indothais lacera
Indothais lacera shell
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Muricidae
Genus:	Indothais
Species:	I. lacera
Binomial name
Indothais lacera (Born, 1778)
Synonyms
Cymia carinifera (Lamarck, 1822) Mancinella mutabilis Link, 1807 Murex lacera Born, 1778 Purpura carinata Schubert & Wagner, 1829 Purpura carinifera Lamarck, 1822 Purpura scalaris Schubert & Wagner, 1829 Purpura umbilicata Jenkins, 1864 Thais carinifera Thais (Thaisella) lacera (Born, 1778) (alternate representation) Thais lacera (Von Born, 1778) Thais (Thais) mutabilis Link, H.F., 1807 Thaisella lacera (Born, 1778) Thaisella mutabilis (Link, 1807)

Indothais lacera is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 30 mm and 57 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off South Africa, in the Red Sea, in the Mediterranean Sea and in the Pacific Ocean off Southeast Asia.

References

• Vine, P. (1986). Red Sea Invertebrates. Immel Publishing, London. 224 pp
• Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213
• Streftaris, N.; Zenetos, A.; Papathanassiou, E. (2005). Globalisation in marine ecosystems: the story of non-indigenous marine species across European seas. Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. Annu. Rev. 43: 419–453
• Leung KF. & Morton B. (2003). Effects of long-term anthropogenic perturbations on three subtidal epibenthic molluscan communities in Hong Kong. In: Morton B, editor. Proceedings of an International Workshop Reunion Conference, Hong Kong: Perspectives on Marine Environment Change in Hong Kong and Southern China, 1977-2001. Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong. pp 655-717
• Claremont, M., Vermeij, G. J., Williams, S. T. & Reid, D. G. (2013). Global phylogeny and new classification of the Rapaninae (Gastropoda: Muricidae), dominant molluscan predators on tropical rocky seashores. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 66: 91–102.

External links

• "Thais (Thaisella) lacera". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 11 May 2011.
• Born, I. Von. (1778). Index rerum naturalium Musei Cæsarei Vindobonensis. Pars I.ma. Testacea. Verzeichniß der natürlichen Seltenheiten des k. k. Naturalien Cabinets zu Wien. Erster Theil. Schalthiere
• Lamarck, (J.-B. M.) de. (1822). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres. Tome septième. Paris: published by the Author, 711 pp
• Jenkins, H. M. (1864). On some Tertiary Mollusca from Mount Séla, in the island of Java. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London. Volume 20, pp. 45-65, pls. 6, 7
• Link, D.H.F. (1807-1808). Beschreibung der Naturalien-Sammlung der Universität zu Rostock. Adlers Erben. 1 Abt
• Katsanevakis, S.; Bogucarskis, K.; Gatto, F.; Vandekerkhove, J.; Deriu, I.; Cardoso A.S. (2012). Building the European Alien Species Information Network (EASIN): a novel approach for the exploration of distributed alien species data. BioInvasions Records. 1: 235-245