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Description of a new species of Drupa Röding, 1798 (Gastropoda: Muricidae: Rapaninae) from the Western Indian Ocean
Houart, R.; Vilvens, C. (1997). Description of a new species of Drupa Röding, 1798 (Gastropoda: Muricidae: Rapaninae) from the Western Indian Ocean. Apex (Brux.) 12(4): 125-131
In: Apex (Bruxelles). Société Belge de Malacologie: Bruxelles. ISSN 0773-5251

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Keywords
    Drupa denticulata Houart & Vilvens, 1997 [WoRMS]
    Marine/Coastal
Author keywords
    Gastropoda, Muricidae, Rapaninae, Drupa, n. sp.

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  • Houart, R.
  • Vilvens, C.

Abstract
    Drupa denticulata n. sp. is described. The species is restricted to Northeast Madagascar and to Réunion, and is compared with Drupa morum morum (Röding, 1798) from the Indo-West Pacific and Drupa morum iodostoma (Lesson, 1840), a subspecies endemic to the Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia).

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