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Indothais sacellum

Status not recordedsnails and slugs

Indothais sacellum is a species in the family Muricidae, order Neogastropoda.

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Quick facts about Indothais sacellum

Weight
Not recorded
Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
Not recorded
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
Not recorded
Young per litter or clutch
Not recorded
Conservation status
Not recorded
Countries on record
Not recorded

Where does Indothais sacellum live?

Not recorded

Where has it been introduced?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists Indothais sacellum as introduced in 2 countries.

  1. Israel
  2. Lebanon

Introduced means brought by people and now present; invasive means the country's checklist records an impact. A species can be native to one part of a country and introduced in another. Source: Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (CC BY 4.0).

Is Indothais sacellum endangered?

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

How is Indothais sacellum classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumMollusca
  3. classGastropoda
  4. orderNeogastropoda
  5. familyMuricidae
  6. genusIndothais
  7. SpeciesIndothais sacellum (Gmelin, 1791)

Synonyms Drupa muricina, Lataxiena taiwanica, Murex rugosa, Murex sacellum, Purpura diadema, Purpura rugosa, Purpura sacellum, Thais sacellum, Thaisella sacellum

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Relatives of Indothais sacellum

Other species in the same genus Indothais.

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Common questions

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Is Indothais sacellum an invasive species?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists Indothais sacellum as introduced in 2 countries: Israel and Lebanon, but does not flag it as invasive in any of them.

What kind of animal is Indothais sacellum?

Indothais sacellum (Indothais sacellum) belongs to the family Muricidae in the order Neogastropoda.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-14. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Indothais sacellum (Indothais sacellum). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/indothais-sacellum

MLA

“Indothais sacellum (Indothais sacellum).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/indothais-sacellum.

BibTeX
@misc{indothais_sacellum_2026,
  title = {Indothais sacellum (Indothais sacellum)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/indothais-sacellum},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}