Animalia > Mollusca > Gastropoda > Neogastropoda > Muricidae > Phyllonotus > Phyllonotus pomum

Phyllonotus pomum (apple murex)

Synonyms: Chicoreus pomum; Hexaplex pomiformis; Murex asperrimus; Murex pomiformis; Murex pomum

Wikipedia Abstract

Phyllonotus pomum, common name the "apple murex", is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
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Prey / Diet

Aliger gigas (pink or queen conch)[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Diodon hystrix (Ajargo)[2]
Lutjanus analis (Virgin snapper)[2]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Queen Conch Predators: Not a Roadblock to Mariculture, Darryl E. Jory and Edwin S. Iversen, Proc. Gulf Caribb. Fish. Inst. 35:108-111. (1983)
♦ 2Food Habits of Reef Fishes of the West Indies, John E. Randall, Stud. Trop. Oceanogr. 5, 665–847 (1967)
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0