Species Chicomurex superbus (Sowerby, 1889)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Murex superbus Sowerby, G.B. (3rd) 1889. Descriptions of fourteen new species of shells from China, Japan and the Andaman Islands. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 56: 565-570, pl. 28 [565] [pl. 28, figs 10-11].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMW 1955.158.16, Hong Kong.
• Chicomurex problematicus Lan, 1981.
• Phyllonotus superbus problematicum Lan, 1981.

 

Generic Combinations

• Chicoreus (Chicomurex) superbus problematicus (Lan, 1981).
• Chicomurex problematicus (Lan, 1981).
• Chicomurex superbus (Sowerby, 1889). —
  Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [27, pl. 2, figs 17a-b]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Western Pacific, from Japan to Lord Howe Island

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Tasman Basin Province (13), Lord Howe Province (14), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, continental slope, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

To 400 m

 

General References

Arakawa, K.Y. 1964. A study of the radulae of the Japanese Muricidae (2). The genera Vexilla, Nassa, Rapana, Murex, Chicoreus and Homalocantha. Venus 22(4): 355-364, pl. 21 [361, pl. 21, fig. 5-6] (as Chicoreus (Chicomurex) superbus)

Bouchet, P. & Houart, R. 2012. Chicomurex superbus. In: MolluscaBase (2017). World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=405857 (Accessed on 2017-06-15)

D'Attilio, A. 1966. Notes on the Japanese species of the family Muricidae. Hawaiian Shell News 14(7): 4-5 [4, fig. 1] (as Chicoreus superbus)

Eisenberg, J.M. 1981. A collector's guide to seashells of the world. New York : McGraw-Hill 239 pp. [94, pl. 76, fig. 4] (as Murex (Phyllonotus) superbus)

Fair, R.H. 1976. The Murex Book: An illustrated catalogue of Recent Muricidae (Muricinae, Muricopsinae, Ocenebrinae). Honolulu : R. Fair 23 pls, 138 pp. [79, pl. 14, fig. 174]

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 [121, figs 67, 124-125, 227, 424]

Houart, R. 1994. Illustrated Catalogue of Recent Species of Muricidae named since 1971. Weisbaden, Germany : Verlag Christa Hemmen pp. 1-179, pl. 28.

Houart, R. 2001. Ingensia gen. nov. and eleven new species of Muricidae (Gastropoda) from New Caledonia, Vanuatu, and Wallis and Futuna Islands. pp. 243-269 in Bouchet, P. & Marshall, B.A. (eds). Tropical deep-sea benthos, Volume 22. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 185: 1–406 [251]

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. [398, pl. 77, figs 1-5]

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. [92(in part), pl. 6, fig. 2] (as Phyllonotus superbus)

Shikama, T. 1963. Selected shells of the world illustrated in colour. Tokyo : Hokuryu-Kan Vol. 1 pp. 1-154. [70, pl. 54, fig. 8] (as Murex (Chicoreus) supersus (sic))

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [27, pl. 2, figs 17a-b]

 

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