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Naquetia barclayi

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Gastropoda

Family
  
Muricidae

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Superfamily
  
Muricoidea

Subfamily
  
Muricinae

Naquetia barclayi

Naquetia barclayi, common name : Barclay's murex, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.

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Description

The shell size varies between 50 mm and 106 mm

Distribution

This species is distributed in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean along the Mascarene Basin and Mauritius; in the Western Pacific Ocean along India, the Philippines and Australia.

References

Naquetia barclayi Wikipedia