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Scientific Name: Chicoreus torrefactus (G. B. Sowerby II, 1841)
English Name: fireband murex
Local/Bangla Name: Badami kata shamuk ( বাদামী কাঁটা শামুক)
Labcode: M1706SM- 18
Photo: ABR Lab
Classification:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mullusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Muricidae
Description:
Shell medium, stout and heavy, broad, ovate-fusiform. Spire is high with 5 whorls. Body surface transversely sculptured by well-marked spiral cords and with 3 varices. Aperture small; anterior siphonal canal deep, broad and somewhat short, narrowly open and outer lip with 8 teeth. Color: Body surface is light green or brown. Aperture white outer lip is light brown. Size: Average shell length, average shell width, average aperture length, average aperture width is respectively 95mm, 45mm, 27 mm, 17mm.
Habitat & Distribution in Bangladesh:
St. Martin’s island and occasionally in Sonadia island
Environment:
Marine
Main References:
Siddiqui KU, Islam MA, Kabir SMH, Ahmad M, Ahmed ATA, Rahman AKA, Haque EU, Ahmed ZU, Begum ZNT, Hassan MA, Khondker M, Rahman MM (2007) Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh, Vol. 17. Molluscs. Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, Dhaka 415 pp.
Other References:
DNA Barcodes from Bangladesh
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Other DNA Barcodes & Nucleutide Sequences
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