Marine Species Traits - Murex cristatus Brocchi, 1814

ERMS name details

Murex cristatus Brocchi, 1814

AphiaID

404287 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:404287)

Classification

Status

unaccepted > superseded combination

Accepted name

Muricopsis cristata (Brocchi, 1814)

Rank

Species

Parent

Murex Linnaeus, 1758

Original name

Murex cristatus Brocchi, 1814

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Variety Murex cristatus var. ampus De Gregorio, 1885 accepted as Muricopsis cristata (Brocchi, 1814) (synonym)
Variety Murex cristatus var. berdicus De Gregorio, 1885 accepted as Muricopsis cristata (Brocchi, 1814) (synonym)
Variety Murex cristatus var. expallescens Tapparone Canefri, 1869 accepted as Muricopsis cristata (Brocchi, 1814) (synonym)
Variety Murex cristatus var. inermis R. A. Philippi, 1836 accepted as Muricopsis cristata (Brocchi, 1814) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

Brocchi, G. B. (1814). Conchiologia fossile subapennina con osservazioni geologiche sugli Apennini e sul suolo adiacente. Tomo primo. pp. 1-56, I-LXXV, 1-240. Milano, Stamperia Reale., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12001697
page(s): 394; pl. 7 fig. 15 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Murex cristatus Brocchi, 1814. Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: https://vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=404287 on 2025-05-18

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025). European Register of Marine Species. Murex cristatus Brocchi, 1814. Accessed at: http://www.marbef.org//www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=404287 on 2025-05-18

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2009-06-19 15:21:58Z

created

Houart, Roland

2009-06-30 23:46:21Z

changed

Houart, Roland

2013-11-23 13:22:04Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2024-06-11 08:36:54Z

changed

Neubauer, Thomas A.

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original description Brocchi, G. B. (1814). Conchiologia fossile subapennina con osservazioni geologiche sugli Apennini e sul suolo adiacente. Tomo primo. pp. 1-56, I-LXXV, 1-240. Milano, Stamperia Reale., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12001697
page(s): 394; pl. 7 fig. 15 [details]

additional source Merle, D., Garrigues, B. & Pointier, J.P. (2022). Fossil and Recent Muricidae of the world: Part Muricopsinae. Harxheim: ConchBooks. 528 pp.
page(s): pl. 4 figs 1a-e; note: lectotype illustrated [details]

subsequent type designation Rossi Ronchetti C. (1955). I tipi della "Conchiologia fossile subappenninica" di G. Brocchi. II Gasteropodi, Scaphopodi. Milano, Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia Mem. V: 2, pp. 357
note: lectotype chosen by inference of holotype [details]

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