Marine Species Traits - Murex brevispina Lamarck, 1822

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Murex brevispina Lamarck, 1822

To Conchology (Murex brevispina)

AphiaID

527263 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:527263)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Type taxon of

Tubicauda Jousseaume, 1880

Parent

Murex Linnaeus, 1758

Original name

Murex brevispina Lamarck, 1822

Synonymised names

Murex (Murex) brevispina Lamarck, 1822 · alternative representation

Tubicauda brevispina (Lamarck, 1822) · unaccepted

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Subspecies Murex brevispina brevispina Lamarck, 1822
Subspecies Murex brevispina macgillivrayi Dohrn, 1862
Subspecies Murex brevispina ornamentalis Ponder & E. H. Vokes, 1988
Subspecies Murex brevispina senilis Jousseaume, 1874
Subspecies Murex brevispina albus Bozzetti, 2020 accepted as Murex brevispina toliaraensis Bozzetti, 2020 accepted as Murex brevispina brevispina Lamarck, 1822 (invalid: junior homonym of Murex craticulatus var. albus Scacchi, 1836; M. brevispina toliaraensis is a replacement name)
Subspecies Murex brevispina toliaraensis Bozzetti, 2020 accepted as Murex brevispina brevispina Lamarck, 1822 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)

Environment

marine

Original description

Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1822). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres. Tome septième, 711 pp. Paris, published by the author. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47433
page(s): 159 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Murex brevispina Lamarck, 1822. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=527263 on 2025-05-30

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

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

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1822). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres. Tome septième, 711 pp. Paris, published by the author. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47433
page(s): 159 [details]

Identification resource

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]

Other

additional source Cox, L. R. (1927). Neogene and Quaternary Mollusca from the Zanzibar Protectorate. In: Anonymous (Eds.): Report on the Palaeontology of the Zanzibar Protectorate based mainly on the collection made by G. M. Stockley. Government of Zanzibar, Crown Agents for the Colonies, London, pp. 13-102, 171–180, pls. 3-19.
page(s): 28, pl. 10, fig. 2a-b; note: Miocene fossil [details] Available for editors

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additional source Steyn, D. G. & Lussi, M. (2005). Offshore shells of southern Africa: A pictorial guide to more than 750 gastropods. Published by the authors. pp. i–vi, 1–289.
page(s): 96. [details]