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Scientific Name: Murex tenuirostrum Lamarck, 1822
English Name: Caltrop murex
Local/Bangla Name: jalikata shamuk (জালিকাটা শামুক)
Classification:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mullusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Muricidae
Description:
Shell large and club-shaped. Spire pointed. Whorls moderately large, spire acute, consists of 6-8 rounded whorls, angulated because of prominent primary cord, each whorl with 3 spinose varices; suture low. Body whorl large with 3 spiny varices; shoulder rounded, largest 3 spines at the shoulder varices on the outer lip; many prominent lateral and obscure longitudinal spiral cords; 6-7 medium spines on the long siphonal canal; spines from the base to the anterior end of the canal progressively diverging in direction. Sculpture consists of spiral and axial cords and ribs; 3 rounded varices bearing spines at the intersections of the spiral cords; spines closed, solid, and curved. Aperture rectangular or roughly elliptical, outer lip crenulated, lirate inside; inner ridge long and margin posteriorly adherent but detached anteriorly. Siphonal canal extended and narrowly open; nucleus of the operculum sub-terminal. Colour. outer surface creamy white or brown; aperture and columella porcelaneous white; spines body colour.
Habitat & Distribution in Bangladesh:
St. Martin’s island and 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.

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