Indothais lacera is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. [2]
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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
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| Synonyms[1] |
- 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)
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The size of an adult shell varies between 30 mm and 57 mm.
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.
- 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
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- 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.
- "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
