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Babelomurex japonicus Japanese Latiaxis

Babelomurex japonicusis commonly referred to as Japanese Latiaxis. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for aquarium keeping. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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Babelomurex japonicus,Japanese Latiaxis,30mm,Aliguay Island, Philippines 201


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lexID:
16190 
AphiaID:
410851 
Scientific:
Babelomurex japonicus 
German:
Japan Latiaxis 
English:
Japanese Latiaxis 
Category:
Snails 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Neogastropoda (Order) > Muricidae (Family) > Babelomurex (Genus) > japonicus (Species) 
Initial determination:
(Dunker, ), 1882 
Occurrence:
Coral sea (Eastern Australia), French Polynesia, Hawaii, Japan, New Caledonia, Philippines, South-Africa, Tonga, Vanuatu, Western Pacific Ocean 
Marine Zone:
Subtidal, sublittoral, infralittoral, deep zone of the oceans from the lower limit of the intertidal zone (intertidal) to the shelf edge at about 200 m water depth. neritic. 
Sea depth:
50 - 824 Meter 
Habitats:
Gravel soils, Rubble rocks, Marine / Salt Water, On living corals, Sandy sea floors, Shell Gravel Soils, Shell Grit Soils 
Size:
5,0 cm 
Temperature:
°F - 82.4 °F (°C - 28°C) 
Food:
Coral polyps = corallivorous 
Difficulty:
Not suitable for aquarium keeping 
Offspring:
None 
Toxicity:
Toxic hazard unknown 
CITES:
Not evaluated 
Red List:
Not evaluated (NE) 
Related species at
Catalog of Life:
  • Babelomurex armatus
  • Babelomurex atlantidis
  • Babelomurex benoiti
  • Babelomurex bernardi
  • Babelomurex blowi
  • Babelomurex capensis
  • Babelomurex cariniferoides
  • Babelomurex cariniferus
    Babels Latiaxis
  • Babelomurex centimanus
  • Babelomurex cookae
 
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Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2024-01-20 16:34:19 

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Babelomurex japonicus (Dunker, 1882)

Babelomurex japonicus, common name Japanese Latiaxis, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.

Feeds exclusively on the polyps of the colonies of scleractinian stony corals.

Synonymised names
Latiaxis japonicus (Dunker, 1882) · unaccepted
Latiaxis sallei Jousseaume, 1883 · unaccepted
Rapana japonica Dunker, 1882 · unaccepted (original combination)

External links

  1. sealifebase (en). Abgerufen am 20.01.2024.
  2. treatment.plazi.org (en). Abgerufen am 20.01.2024.

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