WoRMS name details
Muricanthus Swainson, 1840
225316 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:225316)
unaccepted
Genus
Murex radix Gmelin, 1791 accepted as Hexaplex radix (Gmelin, 1791) (type by subsequent designation)
Aaronia A. H. Verrill, 1950 (synonym)
Centronotus Swainson, 1833 (invalid: junior homonym of Centronotus Schneider, 1801 [Pisces])
Species Muricanthus ambiguus (Reeve, 1845) accepted as Hexaplex ambiguus (Reeve, 1845)
Species Muricanthus callidinus Berry, 1958 accepted as Hexaplex ambiguus (Reeve, 1845) (synonym)
Species Muricanthus kusterianus accepted as Hexaplex kuesterianus (Tapparone Canefri, 1875) (misspelling)
Species Muricanthus nigritus (Philippi, 1845) accepted as Hexaplex nigritus (Philippi, 1845)
Species Muricanthus princeps (Broderip, 1833) accepted as Hexaplex princeps (Broderip, 1833)
Species Muricanthus radix (Gmelin, 1791) accepted as Hexaplex radix (Gmelin, 1791)
Species Muricanthus trippae Petuch, 1991 accepted as Hexaplex fulvescens (G. B. Sowerby II, 1834)
Species Muricanthus varius (Sowerby, 1834) accepted as Chicoreus varius (G. B. Sowerby II, 1834)
Species Muricanthus virgineus (Röding, 1798) accepted as Chicoreus virgineus (Röding, 1798)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
masculine
(of Murex (Muricanthus) Swainson, 1840) Swainson, W. (1840). A treatise on malacology or shells and shell-fish. <em>London, Longman.</em> viii + 419 pp., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/33450
page(s): 296 [details]
page(s): 296 [details]
MolluscaBase (2019). MolluscaBase. Muricanthus Swainson, 1840. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=225316 on 2019-10-23
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original description
(of Murex (Muricanthus) Swainson, 1840) Swainson, W. (1840). A treatise on malacology or shells and shell-fish. <em>London, Longman.</em> viii + 419 pp., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/33450
page(s): 296 [details]
page(s): 296 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From other sources
Remark n. n. pro Centronotus Swainson, 1833 (non Schneider, 1801) [details]
