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Murex brevispina Lamarck, 1822 
AphiaID: 527263

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Neogastropoda (Order) > Muricoidea (Superfamily) > Muricidae (Family) > Muricinae (Subfamily) > Murex (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Typetaxon of  Tubicauda Jousseaume, 1880
Parent Murex Linnaeus, 1758
Synonymised
taxa		  Murex (Murex) brevispina Lamarck, 1822
 Tubicauda brevispina (Lamarck, 1822)
Source  identification resource: Houart R., Kilburn R.N. & Marais A.P. (2010) Muricidae. Pp. 176-270, in: Marais A.P. & Seccombe A.D. (eds), Identification guide to the seashells of South Africa. Volume 1. Groenkloof: Centre for Molluscan Studies. 376 pp. [details]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
English short-spined murex (from synonym)  [details]
Direct child
taxa
[show all]		 Subspecies Murex brevispina brevispina Lamarck, 1822
Subspecies Murex brevispina macgillivrayi Dohrn, 1862
Subspecies Murex brevispina ornamentalis Ponder & Vokes, 1988
Subspecies Murex brevispina senilis Jousseaume, 1874
Environment marine
Distribution East Coast of South Africa (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Mozambique (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
South Mozambique (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Tanzania (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (37 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To MNHN Type collection
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
Image 
Murex brevispina
Murex brevispina
added on 2013-01-07 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked

To MNHN Type collection  
To MNHN Type collection
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:527263
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2010-09-27 18:17:44Z  created  Bouchet, Philippe
2011-03-06 08:47:38Z  changed  Bouchet, Philippe
2012-07-02 01:35:29Z  changed  Rosenberg, Gary
  
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  Citation: Rosenberg, G.; Bouchet, P. (2013). Murex brevispina Lamarck, 1822. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=527263 on 2013-05-26
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