Favartia glypta

Favartia (Favartia) glypta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Muricidae
Subfamily:	Muricopsinae
Genus:	Favartia
Subgenus:	Favartia
Species:	F. glypta
Binomial name
	Favartia (Favartia) glypta; (M. Smith, 1938)
Synonyms
	Murex glyptus M. Smith, 1938; Murexiella glypta (M. Smith, 1938); Murexiella iemanja Petuch, 1979;

Favartia (Favartia) glypta 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 12 mm and 29 mm

This species is distributed in the Gulf of Mexico along Florida and in the Atlantic Ocean along Brazil.

Rosenberg, G., F. Moretzsohn, and E. F. García. 2009. Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas

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