Mancinella alouina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Muricidae
Subfamily:	Rapaninae
Genus:	Mancinella
Species:	M. alouina
Binomial name
Mancinella alouina (Röding, 1798)
Synonyms [1]
Drupella mancinella(Linnaeus, 1758) Mancinella aculeataLink, 1807 Mancinella mancinella(Linnaeus, 1758) Murex mancinellaLinnaeus, 1758 Murex pyrumDillwyn, 1817 Purpura gemmulataLamarck, 1816 Purpura mancinella(Linnaeus, 1758) Thais (Mancinella) alouina(Röding, 1798) Thais (Mancinella) mancinella(Linnaeus, 1758) Thais gemmulata(Lamarck, 1816) Thais mancinella(Linnaeus, 1758) Volema alouinaRöding, 1798 Volema glacialisRöding, 1798

Mancinella alouina, common names alou rock shell, alou rock snail, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. ^[1]

Contents

• Description
• Distribution
• References
• External links

Description

This section needs expansion. You can help by adding missing information. (May 2011)

The size of an adult shell varies between 30 mm and 61 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Kenya, the Mascarene Basin and Tanzania; in the Indo-West Pacific.

References

• Spry, J.F. (1961). The sea shells of Dar es Salaam: Gastropods. Tanganyika Notes and Records 56
• Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice
• Branch, G.M. et al. (2002). Two Oceans. 5th impression. David Philip, Cate Town & Johannesburg
• Claremont, M., Vermeij, G. J., Williams, S. T. & Reid, D. G. (2013). Global phylogeny and new classification of the Rapaninae (Gastropoda: Muricidae), dominant molluscan predators on tropical rocky seashores. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 66: 91–102.

External links

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• Röding, P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg. viii, 199 pp
• Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata
• Link, D.H.F. (1807-1808). Beschreibung der Naturalien-Sammlung der Universität zu Rostock. Adlers Erben. 1 Ab
• Dillwyn, L. W. (1817). A descriptive catalogue of Recent shells, arranged according to the Linnean method; with particular attention to the synonymy. London: John and Arthur Arch. Vol. 1: 1-580; Vol. 2: 581-1092 + index

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