Description of Scabrotrophon pratasensis spec. nov., a new Trophoninae (Gastropoda: Muricidae) from the South China Sea
Authors: R. Houart, M. ChinoBasteria, 87 (2): 206-212
Abstract
A new species of Muricidae assigned to the genus Scabrotrophon McLean, 1996 is described from the South China Sea. It is compared with nine species, six assigned to Scabrotrophon, two to Nipponotrophon Kuroda & Habe, 1971, a related genus and one to Leptotrophon Houart, 1995. All are extensively illustrated. Scabrotrophon hawaiiensis Houart & Moffitt, 2010 is assigned to the genus Boreotrophon P. Fischer, 1884.