Babelomurex benoiti is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
Description Its shell is white-yellowish with many small ridges. The shell is normally 20mm – 45mm in length, the mean being around 38mm.Babelomurex benoiti Image at NMR Pics
(Original description in Latin) The shell is ovate-turreted and sharp, featuring highly convex whorls. These whorls are longitudinally plicated (folded), distinctly carinated (keeled), and encircled transversely by overlapping, imbricated scales. Around the keel, a series of triangular, recurved, and oblong laminae are spirally arranged. The outer lip is sulcate (grooved), the tail is extended, and the siphonal canal is wide open. Tiberi, N. (1855). Descrizione di alcuni testacei viventi viventi nel Mediterraneo. Lettere di Nicola Tiberi. Stabilimento tipografico del cav. Gaetano Nobile, Napoli, 16 p. + 2 pl
Distribution The species occurs in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, off the coasts of Sardinia, Greece and Turkey.Gofas, S. (2010). Babelomurex benoiti (Tiberi, 1855). In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2012) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:234156
References
Giannuzzi-Savelli, R.; Pusateri, F.; Palmeri, A.; Ebreo, C. (2003). Atlante delle conchiglie marine del Mediterraneo Vol. 4 parte prima (Neogastropoda: Muricoidea). Roma: Edizioni Evolver. 298 pp., 745 color figs. Garrigues, B. (2025). Some Coralliophilinae from the deep waters of the north Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, with a description of a new species from the Meteor Seamounts and the rediscovery of Pseudomurex perfectus. Xenophora Taxonomy. 47: 3-34.
External links
Encyclopedia of Life – Babelomurex benoiti GBIF – Babelomurex benoiti