Favartia bojadorensis

Favartia bojadorensis, commonly known as the Bojador murex, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.

Description

The shell size varies between 30 mm and 100 mm. The species, originally called Murex bojadorensis, was described by Locard in 1897.

Distribution

This species occurs in European waters and in the Atlantic Ocean off the Canary Islands, Ghana and Angola.