Register of Antarctic Marine Species (RAMS) - Muricidae Rafinesque, 1815

RAMS taxon details

Muricidae Rafinesque, 1815

AphiaID

148 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:148)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Family

Parent

Muricoidea Rafinesque, 1815

Original name

Muricinae Rafinesque, 1815

Direct children (16)

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Subfamily Ocenebrinae Cossmann, 1903
1. Genus Acanthina Fischer von Waldheim, 1807
2. Genus Tromina Dall, 1918
3. Genus Trophon Montfort, 1810
Subfamily Pagodulinae Barco, Schiaparelli, Houart & Oliverio, 2012
1. Genus Abyssotrophon Egorov, 1993
2. Genus Nodulotrophon T. Habe & Ki. Ito, 1965
3. Genus Pagodula Monterosato, 1884
4. Genus Paratrophon H. J. Finlay, 1926
5. Genus Trophonella Harasewych & Pastorino, 2010
6. Genus Xymene Iredale, 1915
7. Genus Xymenopsis A. W. B. Powell, 1951
Subfamily Rapaninae Gray, 1853
1. Genus Rapana Schumacher, 1817
2. Genus Thais Röding, 1798
Subfamily Trophoninae Cossmann, 1903 accepted as Ocenebrinae Cossmann, 1903 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)

Environment

marine, brackish, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Rafinesque, C.S. (1815). Analyse de la nature ou Tableau de l'univers et des corps organisés. Published by the author, Palermo. 224 pp. , available online at http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k98061z.r=rafinesque.langEN
page(s): 144; note: as [subfamily] "Murexia". [details]

(of ) Rafinesque, C.S. (1815). Analyse de la nature ou Tableau de l'univers et des corps organisés. Published by the author, Palermo. 224 pp. , available online at http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k98061z.r=rafinesque.langEN
page(s): 144; note: as [subfamily] "Murexia". [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Muricidae Rafinesque, 1815. Accessed through: De Broyer, C.; Clarke, A.; Koubbi, P.; Pakhomov, E.; Scott, F.; Vanden Berghe, E. and Danis, B. (Eds.) (2026) Register of Antarctic Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/rams/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=148 on 2026-01-07

Regional species database citation

De Broyer, C.; Clarke, A.; Koubbi, P.; Pakhomov, E.; Scott, F.; Vanden Berghe, E. and Danis, B. (Eds.) (2026). Register of Antarctic Marine Species. Muricidae Rafinesque, 1815. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/rams/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=148 on 2026-01-07

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

db_admin

2009-05-24 14:05:01Z

changed

Houart, Roland

2010-01-27 19:11:38Z

changed

Gofas, Serge

2026-01-06 17:33:29Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

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original description Rafinesque, C.S. (1815). Analyse de la nature ou Tableau de l'univers et des corps organisés. Published by the author, Palermo. 224 pp. , available online at http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k98061z.r=rafinesque.langEN
page(s): 144; note: as [subfamily] "Murexia". [details]

original description (of ) Rafinesque, C.S. (1815). Analyse de la nature ou Tableau de l'univers et des corps organisés. Published by the author, Palermo. 224 pp. , available online at http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k98061z.r=rafinesque.langEN
page(s): 144; note: as [subfamily] "Murexia". [details]

basis of record Bouchet P., Rocroi J.P., Hausdorf B., Kaim A., Kano Y., Nützel A., Parkhaev P., Schrödl M. & Strong E.E. (2017). Revised classification, nomenclator and typification of gastropod and monoplacophoran families. Malacologia. 61(1-2): 1-526. [details] Available for editors

additional source Houart, R. (2018). Historique et classification des espèces actuelles de Muricidae (Neogastropoda, Muricoidea). Novapex. 19 (2): 37-66. [details]

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Introduced: alien

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To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Muricidae)
To Genbank
To image gallery of Natural History Museum Rotterdam
To The Arctic Traits Database (3 traits)
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