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Murex (Murex) tribulus Linnaeus, 1758 
AphiaID: 215641

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Neogastropoda (Order) > Muricoidea (Superfamily) > Muricidae (Family) > Muricinae (Subfamily) > Murex (Genus) > Murex (Murex) (Subgenus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Murex (Murex) Linnaeus, 1758 represented as Murex Linnaeus, 1758
Sources  original description: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details]

basis of record: Ponder W.F. & Vokes E.H. (1988) A revision of the Indo-West Pacific fossil and Recent species of Murex s.s. and Haustellum (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Muricidae). Records of the Australian Museum suppl.8: 1-160., available online at http://australianmuseum.net.au/journal/Ponder-and-Vokes-1988-Rec-Aust-Mus-Suppl-8-1160/ [details]

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Variety Murex tribulus var. pecten Lightfoot, 1786 accepted as Murex pecten pecten Lightfoot, 1786
Distribution Madagascar [details]
Red Sea [details]
Links To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
Image 
Murex (Murex) tribulus
Murex (Murex) tribulus
added on 2013-01-07 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:215641
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
1997-11-12 07:24:15Z  created  Fondo, Esther
2002-01-09 18:51:18Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2009-06-22 14:29:05Z  changed  Houart, Roland
2010-09-27 18:17:44Z  changed  Bouchet, Philippe
  
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  Citation: Bouchet, P.; Houart, R. (2013). Murex (Murex) tribulus Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=215641 on 2013-05-24
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