WoRMS banner
 Home
 About
 Search taxa
 Taxon tree
 Literature
 Distribution
 Specimens
 Match taxa
 Editors
 Statistics
 Users
 Webservice
 Photogallery
 Info downloads
 Sponsors
 Glossary
 Manual
 Log in
Add search provider Add provider
Twitter: Latest updates @WRMarineSpecies

WoRMS taxon details

Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMurex purpureus Montagu, 1803 
AphiaID: 154087

Classification: Biota > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAnimalia (Kingdom) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMollusca (Phylum) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorGastropoda (Class) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCaenogastropoda (Subclass) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorNeogastropoda (Order) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMuricoidea (Superfamily) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMuricidae (Family) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMuricinae (Subfamily) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMurex (Genus) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMurex purpureus (Species)
Status Unaccepted: synonym, or anything that is not accepted unaccepted (original combination)
Accepted name  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorRaphitoma purpurea (Montagu, 1803)
Rank Species
Parent Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMurex Linnaeus, 1758
Sources  original description Montagu, G. (1803) Testacea Britannica or Natural History of British Shells, Marine, Land, and Fresh-water, Including the Most Minute: Systematically Arranged and Embellished with Figures. J. White, London, Vol. 1, xxxvii + 291 pp. and Vol. 2, 293–606 pp., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/78694 [details]

source of synonymy Check List of European Marine Mollusca (CLEMAM), available online at http://www.somali.asso.fr/clemam/index.clemam.html [details]

[show all]
Environment marine, fresh, terrestrial
Link Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo CLEMAM 
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:154087
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-04-16 10:28:02Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2009-12-02 14:47:43Z  checked  Tucker, John
  
[Taxonomic tree] [Occurrence map] [Google] [Google scholar] [Google images]
  Citation: WoRMS (2014). Murex purpureus Montagu, 1803. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=154087 on 2015-01-30
  Creative Commons License The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License