Species Babelomurex spinosus (Hirase, 1908)

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• Latiaxis spinosus Hirase, S. 1908. On Japanese marine Mollusca (II), with the descriptions of new species of Muricidae and Buccinidae. Conchological Magazine 2(12): 69-74, pls 41-42 [71, pl. 41, fig. 253-4] [not Dall, 1889].
• Coralliophila spinosa Dall, W.H. 1925. Illustrations of unfigured types of shells in the collection of the United States National Museum. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 66(2554): 1-41, pls 1-36 [14, pl. 36, figs 5-6] [junior homonym and synonym of Latiaxis spinosus Hirase, 1908].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, off Japan.
• Latiaxis (Babelomurex) pagodus multispinosus Shikama, T. 1966. On some new Latiaxis and Coralliophila in Japan. Venus 25(1): 21-26 [24, pl. 2, figs 13-15] [infrasubspecific].

  Type data:

   Holotype KPM 3757, off Nada, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan.
• Latiaxis jeanneae D'Attilio, A. & Myers, B.W. 1984. Descriptions of five new Muricacean gastropods and comments on two additional species in the families Muricidae and Coralliophilidae: (Mollusca). Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History 20(5): 81-94 [86, figs 15-20].

  Type data:

   Holotype 79499, Bohol Straits between the islands of Cebu and Bohol, Philippine Islands.
• Babelomurix (Babelomurix) spinosus Hirase, 1908.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Western Pacific

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

 

General References

Barco, A., Claremont, M., Reid, D.G., Houart, R., Bouchet, P., Williams, S.T., Cruaud, C., Couloux, A. & Oliverio, M. 2010. A molecular phylogenetic framework for the Muricidae, a diverse family of carnivorous gastropods. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 56: 1025-1039

Bouchet, P. 2010. Babelomurex spinosus (Hirase, 1908). In: MolluscaBase (2017). World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=410869 (Accessed on 11 May 2017)

Kosuge, S. & Suzuki, M. 1985. Illustrated catalogue of Latiaxis and its related groups. Family Coralliophilidae. Bulletin of the Institute of Malacology, Tokyo 1: 1-83 [19, pl. 8-9, fig. 1-25; pl. 10, fig. 1-22; pl. 30, fig. 1-11] (as B. jeanneae)

Oliverio, M. 2008. Coralliophilinae (Neogastropoda: Muricidae) from the southwest Pacific. in: Héros, V. et al. (Ed.) Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos 25. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (1993). 196: 481-585. pp.

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [16] (as Babelomurex spinosus)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
	MURICIDAE	13-Jun-2017	ADDED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ingo Burghardt (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)