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Murex tritonis Linnaeus, 1758 
AphiaID: 215643

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Neogastropoda (Order) > Muricoidea (Superfamily) > Muricidae (Family) > Muricinae (Subfamily) > Murex (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted
Record
status
 Added by Database Management Team
Accepted name  Charonia tritonis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Rank Species
Typetaxon of  Charonia Gistl, 1847
Eutritonium Cossmann, 1904
Parent 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]

additional source: Beu A. (2010). Catalogue of Tonnoidea. Pers.com. [details]

source of synonymy: Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Contribution à l'étude de la faune de Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Faune des colonies françaises, III(fasc. 4). Société d'Editions géographiques, maritimes et coloniales: Paris. 321-636, plates IV-VII pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

Link To Biodiversity Heritage Library (81 publications)
Note  synonymy: Original combination for Eutritonium tritonis [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:215643
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2002-02-03 19:18:24Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
  
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  Citation: WoRMS (2013). Murex tritonis Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=215643 on 2013-06-19
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