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Vokesimurex elenensis
Vokesimurex elenensis, common name the (Santa) Elena murex, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
From the article Vokesimurex elenensis on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
The size of the shell varies between 40 mm and 105 mm. (Described as Murex plicatus) The shell is thick and heavy, the spines are obtuse, short on the whorls and long on the siphonal canal. The color is purplish white, darker within the aperture.
Range & habitat
This marine species occurs in the Pacific Ocean from Baja California, Mexico, to Peru
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 715625.