Hexaplex kuesterianus

Hexaplex kuesterianus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Muricidae
Genus:	Hexaplex
Species:	H. kuesterianus
Binomial name
	Hexaplex kuesterianus; (Tapparone-Canefri, 1875)
Synonyms
	Hexaplex (Hexaplex) kuesterianus (Tapparone Canefri, 1875)· accepted, alternate representation; Hexaplex (Hexaplex) kusterianus (Tapparone-Canefri, 1875); Hexaplex kusterianus (misspelling); Murex kuesterianus Tapparone Canefri, 1875 (original combination); Murex kusterianus Tapparone-Canefri, 1875 (basionym); Murex spinosus A. Adams, 1853; Muricanthus kusterianus (Tapparone-Canefri, 1875);

Hexaplex kuesterianus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.^[1]

Subspecies

Adams A. (1853). Description of several new species of Murex, Rissoina, Planaxis and Eulima from the Comingian collection. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1851 p. 267–272
Tapparone Canefri, C. (1875). Studio monografico sopra i Muricidi del mar Rosso. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. 7: 569-640, pl. 19.
Merle D., Garrigues B. & Pointier J.-P. (2011) Fossil and Recent Muricidae of the world. Part Muricinae. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 648 pp.

Adams A. (1853 ["1851"). Descriptions of several new species of Murex, Rissoina, Planaxis, and Eulima, from the Cumingian collection. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. (1851): 267-272.]