WoRMS taxon details
Muricanthus Swainson, 1840
225316 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:225316)
accepted
Genus
Murex radix Gmelin, 1791 accepted as Muricanthus radix (Gmelin, 1791) (type by subsequent designation)
Hexaplex (Muricanthus) Swainson, 1840 · unaccepted
Murex (Aaronia) A. H. Verrill, 1950 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Murex (Centronotus) Swainson, 1833 · unaccepted (invalid: junior homonym of...)
invalid: junior homonym of Centronotus Schneider, 1801 [Pisces]
Murex (Muricantha) P. Fischer, 1884 · unaccepted (unjustified emendation)
Murex (Muricanthus) Swainson, 1840 · unaccepted > superseded rank
- Species Muricanthus ambiguus (Reeve, 1845)
- Species Muricanthus callidinus S. S. Berry, 1958
- Species Muricanthus nigritus (R. A. Philippi, 1845)
- Species Muricanthus radix (Gmelin, 1791)
- Species Muricanthus strausi (A. H. Verrill, 1950)
- Species Muricanthus kusterianus [sic] accepted as Hexaplex kuesterianus (Tapparone Canefri, 1875) (misspelling)
- Species Muricanthus princeps (Broderip, 1833) accepted as Hexaplex princeps (Broderip, 1833)
- Species Muricanthus trippae Petuch, 1991 accepted as Hexaplex fulvescens (G. B. Sowerby II, 1834)
- Species Muricanthus varius (G. B. Sowerby II, 1834) accepted as Hexaplex varius (G. B. Sowerby II, 1834) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- 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 the natural classification of shells and shell-fish. Longman, London, viii + 419 pp., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/33450
page(s): 296 [details]
page(s): 296 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Muricanthus Swainson, 1840. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=225316 on 2025-04-21
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Murex (Centronotus) Swainson, 1833) Swainson, W. (1829-1833). Zoological Illustrations, or original figures and descriptions of new, rare, or interesting animals, selected chiefly from the classes of ornithology, entomology, and conchology, and arranged according to their apparent affinities. Second series. London: Baldwin & Cradock. (Vol. 1-3): pl. 1-30 [1829] pl. 31-45 [1830] pl. 46-85 [1831] pl. 86-96 [1832] pl. 97-136 [1833]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/42278
page(s): 100, 113 [details]
original description (of Murex (Aaronia) A. H. Verrill, 1950) Verrill, A.H. (1950). A new <i>Murex</i> from the West Indies. <em>Minutes of the Conchological Club of Southern California.</em> 103: 4-5.
page(s): 4 [details]
original description (of Murex (Muricanthus) Swainson, 1840) Swainson, W. (1840). A treatise on malacology; or the natural classification of shells and shell-fish. Longman, London, viii + 419 pp., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/33450
page(s): 296 [details]
original description (of Murex (Muricantha) P. Fischer, 1884) Fischer, P. (1880-1887). <i>Manuel de conchyliologie et de paléontologie conchyliologique, ou histoire naturelle des mollusques vivants et fossiles suivi d'un Appendice sur les Brachiopodes par D. P. Oehlert. Avec 23 planches contenant 600 figures dessinées par S. P. Woodward.</i>. Paris: F. Savy. Published in 11 parts (fascicules), xxiv + 1369 pp., 23 pls. [1: 1-112, 21 September 1880; 2: 113-192, 16 March 1881; 3: 193-304, 28 July 1881; 4: 305-416, 5 May 1882; 5: 417-512, 21 February 1883; 6: 513-608, 20 December 1883; 7: 609-688, 30 June 1884; 8: 689-784, 29 January 1885; 9: 785-896, 31 August 1885; 10: 897-1008, 30 April 1886; 11: 1009-1369, 15 June 1887]. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47340
page(s): 641 [details]
page(s): 100, 113 [details]
original description (of Murex (Aaronia) A. H. Verrill, 1950) Verrill, A.H. (1950). A new <i>Murex</i> from the West Indies. <em>Minutes of the Conchological Club of Southern California.</em> 103: 4-5.
page(s): 4 [details]
original description (of Murex (Muricanthus) Swainson, 1840) Swainson, W. (1840). A treatise on malacology; or the natural classification of shells and shell-fish. Longman, London, viii + 419 pp., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/33450
page(s): 296 [details]
original description (of Murex (Muricantha) P. Fischer, 1884) Fischer, P. (1880-1887). <i>Manuel de conchyliologie et de paléontologie conchyliologique, ou histoire naturelle des mollusques vivants et fossiles suivi d'un Appendice sur les Brachiopodes par D. P. Oehlert. Avec 23 planches contenant 600 figures dessinées par S. P. Woodward.</i>. Paris: F. Savy. Published in 11 parts (fascicules), xxiv + 1369 pp., 23 pls. [1: 1-112, 21 September 1880; 2: 113-192, 16 March 1881; 3: 193-304, 28 July 1881; 4: 305-416, 5 May 1882; 5: 417-512, 21 February 1883; 6: 513-608, 20 December 1883; 7: 609-688, 30 June 1884; 8: 689-784, 29 January 1885; 9: 785-896, 31 August 1885; 10: 897-1008, 30 April 1886; 11: 1009-1369, 15 June 1887]. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47340
page(s): 641 [details]
Taxonomy
status source
Houart, R. & Wiedrick, S.G. (2021). Review of <i>Muricanthus</i> Swainson, 1840 and some Recent species assigned to <i>Hexaplex</i> s.s. Perry, 1810, <i>Hexaplex (Trunculariopsis)</i> Cossmann, 1921 and <i>Phyllonotus</i> Swainson, 1833. <em>Novapex.</em> 22(1-2): 25-42. [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Remark n. n. pro Centronotus Swainson, 1833 (non Schneider, 1801) [details]
