Species Naquetia triqueter (Born, 1778)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Murex triqueter Born, I. von 1778. Index rerum naturalium Musei Caesarei Vindobonensis, pl. 1, Testacea. - Verzeichniss etc. Illust. Vindobonae. Vienna : J.P. Krauss xlii 458 pp. [288] [reference to Martini, 1777 [fig. 1038] Houart, 1992].

  Type data:

   Lectotype Tranquebar (as East Indies and Tranquebar in ).
• Purpura cancellata Röding, P.F. 1798. Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturae quae olim collegerat Joa. Hamburg : Trappii 199 pp. [Date published September 1798] [143].
• Purpura variegata Röding, P.F. 1798. Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturae quae olim collegerat Joa. Hamburg : Trappii 199 pp. [Date published September 1798] [143].
• Triplex flexuosa Perry, G. 1811. Conchology, or the natural history of shells containing a new arrangement of the genera and species, illustrated by coloured engravings, executed from the natural specimens and including the latest discoveries. London : W. Miller 4 pp., 62 pls. [pl. 11, fig. 1].
• Murex trigonulus Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de M. 1816. Liste des objets représentés dans les planches de cette livraison. pp. 1-16 in Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de M. Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature. Vers, coquilles, mollusques et polypiers. Paris : Agasse Part 23 pp. 1-16, pls 391-488. [pl. 417, fig. 4].
• Murex roseotinctus Sowerby, G.B. 1860. Descriptions of new shells in the collection of H. Cuming (1859). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 27: 428-429 [429] [pl. 49, fig. 6].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1974100, Philippines.

 

Generic Combinations

• Naquetia trigonulus (Lamarck, 1816). —
  Dharma, B. 1988. Indonesian Shells. Jakarta : PT. Sarana Graha Vol. 1 111 pp. [78, pl. 25, fig. 11]
• Pterynotus (Naquetia) triqueter (Born, 1778). —
  Wilson, B.R. & Gillett, K. 1971. Australian shells: illustrating and describing 600 species of marine gastropods found in Australian waters. Sydney : Reed Books 168 pp. [88, pl. 59, fig 5, 5a]
• Naquetia triqueter (Born, 1778). —
  Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [34, pl. 2, fig. 16]

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Naquetia triquetra auct. —
  Dharma, B. 1988. Indonesian Shells. Jakarta : PT. Sarana Graha Vol. 1 111 pp. [78, pl. 25, fig. 10]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo Pacific, from Maldives to Tuamotu Archipelago

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Christmas Island Province (23), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine, subtidal.

 

General References

Fair, R.H. 1976. The Murex Book: An illustrated catalogue of Recent Muricidae (Muricinae, Muricopsinae, Ocenebrinae). Honolulu : R. Fair 23 pls, 138 pp. [83, pl. 14, fig. 177] (as Chicoreus (Naquetia) triqueter)

Hinton, A. 1972. Shells of New Guinea and the central Indo-Pacific. Milton : Jacaranda Press xviii 94 pp. [36, pl. 18, fig. 12] (as Pterynotus triqueter)

Houart, R. 1992. The genus Chicoreus and related genera (Gastropoda: Muricidae) in the Indo-West Pacific. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] A 154: 1-188 [131, figs 59, 128]

Merle, D., Garrigues, B. & Pointier, J-P 2011. Fossil and recent Muricidae of the world. Part Muricinae. Hackenheim, Germany : ConchBooks pp. 1-648, pls 182. [402, pl. 79, figs 1-6]

Middelfart, P. 1997. An illustrated checklist of Muricidae (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia) from the Andaman Sea, Thailand. Phuket Marine Biological Center Special Publication 17(2): 349-388 [358-359, pl. 2, fig. 8]

Ponder, W.F. 1972. Notes on some Australian genera and species of the family Muricidae (Neogastropoda). Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 2(3): 215-248 [218]

Radwin, G. & D'Atillio, A. 1976. Murex shells of the world, an illustrated guide to the Muricidae. Stanford : Stanford University Press 1-284, 32 pls, 192 text figs. [82, pl. 15, fig. 11] (as Naquetia triquetra (sic))

Shikama, T. 1963. Selected shells of the world illustrated in colour. Tokyo : Hokuryu-Kan Vol. 1 pp. 1-154. [71, pl. 54, fig. 7] (as Murex (Naquetia) triqueter)

Vokes, E.H. 1967. Cenozoic Muricidae of the western Atlantic region. Pt. 2. Chicoreus s.s. and Chicoreus (Siratus). Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 5(3): 133-66 [258, fig. 4]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [34, pl. 2, fig. 16]

Wilson, B.R. & Gillett, K. 1971. Australian shells: illustrating and describing 600 species of marine gastropods found in Australian waters. Sydney : Reed Books 168 pp. [88, pl. 59, fig 5, 5a]

 

Common Name References

Coleman, N. 1975. What Shell is That? Sydney : Lansdowne Press 298 pp. [151, pl. 458] (Three-cornered Murex)

Reeve, L.A. 1845. Monograph of the genus Murex. pls 1-34 in Reeve, L.A. (ed). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 3. [sp. 4] (Three-Angled Murex)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	MURICIDAE	12-Oct-2011	ADDED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ingo Burghardt (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		29-Sep-2011	MODIFIED