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Muricopsis necocheana

Muricopsis necocheana

(Pilsbry, 1900)
Drupa Castaña

Family: Muricidae
Order: Neogastropoda
Class: Gastropoda
Phylum / Division: Mollusca
Kingdom: Animalia

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Synonyms: Muricopsis necocheanus.





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Muricopsis necocheana is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. This species was described by the American biologist Henry Augustus Pilsbry, with the name Sistrum nicocheanum in a scientific article included in the number 1 of volume XIV of the journal The Nautilus, published in May 1900.

 The shell of this species was originally described as follows: shell imperforate or rimate, fusiform, thick and strong, brownish-orange color, the whorl is brownish-brown. Ornamentation consists of strong longitudinal waves, rounded, equal to their intervals, 8 or 7 in number in the last whorl; these waves are traversed by quite strong spiral chords, which widen into transversely oblong low tubercles above the tops of the waves. Between these cords there are several spiral threads in most or all intervals. Whorls are convex, the last with concave contours below, produced, in a fairly long anterior canal. Aperture oval, brownish-orange inside; thick or beveled peristome, armed with six subequal teeth inside; angular columellar margin at origin of anterior canal, with a small transverse fold above angle; fairly straight and long channel for this genus. Length 21.5 mm, diameter 11 mm, length of aperture and canal 12 mm.

Distribution: This species is distributed in the Southwest Atlantic along Southeast Brazil and Argentina.

Source: Wikipedia, article Muricopsis necocheana. Content adapted from Wikipedia, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Accessed on 17/07/2026.





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Photography ID: 589945
 
Mar del Plata
Buenos Aires
Argentina
06/30/2024
Lucas Rubio



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Record IDDateExact timeCountryProvince / departmentPlaceFilmedPhotographedRecorded vocalObservedHeardWounded or deadNumber of individualsUser or BibliographyDetail
205212430/06/2024ArgentinaBuenos AiresPlaya Waikiki, Mar del PlataLucas Rubio
141204425/07/2017ArgentinaBuenos AiresMar del PlataNicolas Olejnik
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Please use the following reference when citing this species account.
EcoRegistros. 2026. Muricopsis necocheana – Species account. Accessed from www.ecoregistros.org on 27/09/2026.