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Murex (Murex) pecten Lightfoot, 1786 
AphiaID: 215663

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Neogastropoda (Order) > Muricoidea (Superfamily) > Muricidae (Family) > Muricinae (Subfamily) > Murex (Genus) > Murex (Murex) (Subgenus)
Status alternate representation
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Murex pecten Lightfoot, 1786
Rank Species
Parent Murex (Murex) Linnaeus, 1758 represented as Murex Linnaeus, 1758
Source  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]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
English thorny woodcock  [details]
English venus comb  [details]
Direct child
taxa
[show all]		 Subspecies Murex pecten soelae Ponder & Vokes, 1988
Environment marine
Distribution Mascarene Basin [details]
Mauritius [details]
Link To Encyclopedia of Life
Note  Description: Solid, yellowish shell, up to 15 cm, with a long siphonal canal and numerous long, slightly curved spines. Habitat: shallow soft substrata. Distribution: Indo-Pacific. (Richmond, 1997). [details]
Image 
Murex pecten
Murex pecten
added on 2013-01-07 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:215663
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
1997-03-01 15:31:58Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2000-07-18 15:57:33Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2009-06-20 23:24:37Z  changed  Houart, Roland
2010-09-27 18:17:44Z  changed  Bouchet, Philippe
2013-05-04 11:03:32Z  changed  Bouchet, Philippe
  
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  Citation: Bouchet, P.; Houart, R. (2013). Murex (Murex) pecten Lightfoot, 1786. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=215663 on 2013-05-23
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