Drupa rubusidaeus

Drupa (Ricinella) rubusidaeus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Muricidae
Subfamily:	Rapaninae
Genus:	Drupa
Subgenus:	Ricinella
Species:	D. rubusidaeus
Binomial name
	Drupa (Ricinella) rubusidaeus; Röding, 1798
Synonyms
	Drupa fragum Röding, P.F., 1798; Drupa rubusidaeus Röding, 1798; Drupa (Ricinella) purpurata Schumacher, H.C.F., 1817; Drupa spathulifera (Blainville, 1832); Murex hippocastanum Wood, 1825; Murex hystrix Link, H.F., 1807; Purpura spathulifera Blainville, 1832; Ricinella purpurata Schumacher, 1817; Ricinula reeveana Crosse, 1862; Ricinula miticula Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de, 1822;

Drupa (Ricinella) rubusidaeus, common name : the strawberry drupe, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.^[1]

Description

The shell size varies between 20 mm and 60 mm

This species is distributed in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean along Aldabra, Chagos, the Mascarene Basin, Mauritius and Tanzania and in the Indo-West Pacific.

Spry, J.F. (1961). The sea shells of Dar es Salaam: Gastropods. Tanganyika Notes and Records 56

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