Poirieria zelandica

Poirieria zelandica
Shell of Poirieria zelandica from New Zealand, on display at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Muricidae
Genus: Poirieria
Species:
P. zelandica
Binomial name
Poirieria zelandica
(Quoy & Gaimard,1833)
Synonyms
  • Murex novaezeelandiae Gray, J.E. in Sowerby, G.B. II, 1834

Poirieria zelandica, common name the spiny murex, is a species of a large predatory sea snail with an operculum. It is a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Muricidae, the rock snails or murex snails.

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