title: Muricopsis rutila
text: # Muricopsis rutila
  
  Muricopsis rutila, common name : the beaded drupe, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
  
  ## Subspecies
  
  There are two subspecies:
  
  * Muricopsis rutila mariangelae Rolan & Fernandes, 1991 : this subspecies is endemic to São Tomé and Príncipe
  * Muricopsis rutila rutila (Reeve, 1846): this species is found in the Atlantic Ocean off Ghana: represented as Muricopsis rutila (Reeve, 1846)
  
  ## Description
  
  The size of an adult shell varies between 10 mm and 20 mm.
  
  