Favartia concavoptera

Favartia concavoptera
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Muricidae
Subfamily:	Muricopsinae
Genus:	Favartia
Species:	F. concavoptera
Binomial name
	Favartia concavoptera; (Kosuge, 1980)
Synonyms
	Pterynotus concavopterus Kosuge, 1980 (basionym); Timbellus concavopterus (Kosuge, 1980) superseded combination;

Favartia concavoptera is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.^[1]

Description

The shell grows to a length of 22 mm.

This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off the Philippines.

^ ^a ^b MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Favartia concavoptera (Kosuge, 1980). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1594888 on 2022-09-29

Kosuge S. (1980) Descriptions of three new species of the family Muricidae (Gastropoda Muricacea). Bulletin of the Institute of Malacology, Tokyo 1(4): 53-56, pls 14-15
Merle, D., Garrigues, B. & Pointier, J.P. (2022). Fossil and Recent Muricidae of the world: Part Muricopsinae. Harxheim: ConchBooks. 528 pp.

"Pterynotus (Pterynotus) concavopterus". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 10 April 2011.

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